I’m kind of curious about how people read the site, in particular the ScienceBlogs front page, so: I look at the ScienceBlogs front page:customer surveys As a bonus, if you feel so inclined, take a look at the front page, and leave a comment letting me know what you think. Is there something they ought… Continue reading Reader Poll: ScienceBlogs Front Page
Category: Blogs
Sodamageddon: Why I’m Not Leaving
I suppose I have to say something about the Great Pepsi Blog Controversy, because it’s sucking all the oxygen out of science blogging right now. I’ll try to keep this short and self-contained. At this time, I have no intention of leaving ScienceBlogs over the paid PepsiCo blog. I’m very sorry to hear that several… Continue reading Sodamageddon: Why I’m Not Leaving
Fourth of July Open Delurking Thread
It’s Independence Day here in the US, where we spend the day playing with fire (grilling during the day, fireworks at night) to express our gratitude for not needing to give a damn about the British royal family. Or something like that. Since I’m going to do my patriotic playing-with-fire duty (augmented by a possible… Continue reading Fourth of July Open Delurking Thread
Ask Me Uncomfortable Questions
I’m seriously lacking in bloggy inspiration at the moment. So we’ll fall back on something that has worked a couple of times in the past: Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d… Continue reading Ask Me Uncomfortable Questions
Why I’d Never Make It as a Mathematician
Matt’s Sunday Function this week is a weird one, a series that is only conditionally convergent: So the sum of the infinite series, by inexorable logic, is both ln(2) and ln(2)/2. How is this possible? Of course it isn’t. The flaw in our logic is the assumption that the series has a definite sum –… Continue reading Why I’d Never Make It as a Mathematician
The World Doesn’t Need More Promotional Blogs
Over at the Book Publicity blog, Yen takes up the question of Internet publicity (via SF Signal): Yesterday I spoke at an AAR / Association of Authors’ Representatives panel together with Connor Raus (who runs digital advertising agency CRKWD) about understanding social media and how to use it effectively — as you know, a favorite… Continue reading The World Doesn’t Need More Promotional Blogs
The One Thing to Believe If You’re Only Going to Believe One Thing
Over in Twitter-land, S. C. Kavassalis notes a Googler who’s not afraid to ask the big questions: Weird Google search of the week: ‘the “one” scientific idea that we need to believe’. Uh um, I’m sure my blog couldn’t possibly answer that. It’s a good question, though, ad there are a couple of different ways… Continue reading The One Thing to Believe If You’re Only Going to Believe One Thing
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
The pace has slowed, but there are still occasional sightings of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in my Google vanity searches: It turns up on library blogs with some regularity. This particular one, from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is nice because it’s not just a rewrite of the publicity copy I was really… Continue reading How to Teach Physics to Your Dog: Obsessive Update
Research Blogging Awards
The winners of the first Research Blogging Awards were announced today, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that this blog was named the “Best Blog — Chemistry, Physics, or Astronomy.” I knew that I was nominated– I was one of the judges, and while I abstained from voting on my own blog, I… Continue reading Research Blogging Awards
See You in Forty Days
I’m giving up reading blogs for Lent. The proximate cause of this is Bora’s latest blame-the-media post, which is just deja vu all over again, because I’m pretty sure this exact conversation has gone on ten times before (the fact that scientists find other scientists compelling speakers does not mean that scientists are good at… Continue reading See You in Forty Days