I’ll post a March Meeting update later, but if you like your conferences a little more wide-ranging, Ethan Zuckerman provides extensive reporting from the TED Conference. The speakers range from Steven Pinker and Murray Gell-Mann to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so there’s a little something for everyone.
Category: Blogs
New Developments in Science Blogging
Two exciting new developments in the Seed-o-sphere: 1) Rob Knop’s Galactic Interactions has joined ScienceBlogs. It’s nice to have another physical science type around here, along with all these damn biologists. If you’re so inclined, go say “hi.” 2) The Powers That Be have also unveiled a new RSS feed option: Scienceblogs Select, through Feedburner.… Continue reading New Developments in Science Blogging
I Told You ‘Bout the Swans, That They Live in the Park
The guys over at the World’s Fair have created an Order of Science Scouts, for those who find themselves longing for merit badges to display on their blogs. Such as, for example, this one: The “has frozen stuff just to see what happens” badge (LEVEL III) In which the recipient has frozen something in liquid… Continue reading I Told You ‘Bout the Swans, That They Live in the Park
Virtual Journalism
I don’t have a lot to add to this link, I just wanted to quote Ethan Zuckerman on virtual journalism, from a post about being interviewed for Pitchfork magazine: The most interesting aspect of the discussion to me was the idea that Chris brought to the table – that we might pay more attention to… Continue reading Virtual Journalism
Accentuate the Positive: Week of Science
Today is the official beginning of the week of Just Science. The many blogs who signed up have pledged to post only about science for the week, and particularly not to post about “anti-science”– no “religious people are stupid,” no “alternative medicine is crap,” no “global warming denialists are a bunch of cranks.” I didn’t… Continue reading Accentuate the Positive: Week of Science
Philosophia Naturalis
I’m really bad about remembering these things– I ought to start putting them on my calendar– but the physics blogging carnival Philosophia Naturalis is now up, collecting many excellent posts about physics. If you’ve been away from the computer for the last month, or would just like a quick recap, go check it out.
Controversy Sells
A little while ago, John Lynch asked what really draws readers to ScienceBlogs, and listed his top twenty posts. In a similar vein, here are the top twelve Uncertain Principles posts of the past year, ranked by number of pageviews: SAT Challenge: Bloggers Dumber Than High-School Kids Local Realism, Loopholes, and The God Delusion SAT… Continue reading Controversy Sells
Week of Science
A couple of bloggers have issued a challenge: a week of blogging about Just Science. I like RPM’s description better than what’s on the official site: It boils down to this: One week of science blogging and only science blogging. At least one post a day of pure science content. No blogging about anti-science —… Continue reading Week of Science
How to Lie With Statistics
Over at Good Math, Bad Math, Mark offers two entries for the Basic Concepts series: Mean, Median, and Mode Normal Distributions Between those two, he tells you almost everything you need to know to lie with statistics. Or how to spot when somebody else is trying to lie to you with statistics, which is probably… Continue reading How to Lie With Statistics
The Open Laboratory
As part of the upcoming science blogging conference, Bora Zivkovic at A Blog Around the Clock has put together an anthology of the best science-related blog posts of last year. He’s titled it The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006, and it’s now available for purchase at Lulu, should you be interested… Continue reading The Open Laboratory