As you’ve no doubt seen elsewhere on ScienceBlogs, Nature posted a little story about popular science blogs that included a list of said blogs, including a link to yours truly (tied with Deltoid for 11th in their list by Technorati rank order. My ranking has actually climbed slightly since then (#8312 accoring to my most… Continue reading We’re Number 8,312!
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Correlation, Causation, and Sleep
Over at the Examining Room of Dr. Charles, one of the newer ScienceBlogs, there’s a post reminding me that I want nothing to do with medical research. I mean, how do you sort out what’s a cause, and what’s an effect in data like this: Another recent study, published in Diabetes Care this past March,… Continue reading Correlation, Causation, and Sleep
Bored by the Landscape
The big event of the moment in physics, at least on the high energy/ theory side, is the Strings 2006 meeting in Beijing, which will feature the usual suspects talking about the usual topics in string theory. This comes on the heels of the SUSY06 meeting, which was extensively blogged by Clifford and others. This… Continue reading Bored by the Landscape
Lazy Blogging Saturday
It’s been a while since I looked at the search engine keywords on Goggle Analytics for this site. It’s a little depressing to find that PZ Myers turns up three times (“pharyngula,” “Pharyngula,” and “PZ Myers”) before my own name. Worse yet, Aaron Bergman, who doesn’t even have a blog any more, also shows up… Continue reading Lazy Blogging Saturday
The Big Kick-Off
A big event took place at noon Eastern time today. That’s right, the soccer World Cup has started, and as I type this, Germany leads Costa Rica 2-1. Oh, yeah, and because the science nerds need something to do while the sports fans are all obsessing over soccer, the new, improved ScienceBlogs front page launched,… Continue reading The Big Kick-Off
Farewell to Warblogging
Matt Welch has a nice post-mortem for the 2001 blogging boom, in which he recalls the days when the whole post-September-11th-attacks thing seemed like it would really shake up American politics, and that weblogs were at the forefront of a grand realignment. That failed pretty spectacularly, didn’t it? It’s a good piece, both recalling what… Continue reading Farewell to Warblogging
The Numbers Game
Today finds Kieran Healy counting words, and Hedwig the Grrlscientist tallying visits, so that must count as a blog statistics meme. Or something. Out of curiosity, I checked the Google Analytics stats for this site, and was bemused to discover that as of sometime this morning, there have been 141,183 unique visits to this site… Continue reading The Numbers Game
Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Rapture for Nerds
The question for the week from the Seed overlords is: “Will the ‘human’ race be around in 100 years?” This is basically a Singularity question, and as such, I think it’s kind of silly. But then, I think the whole Singularity thing is sort of silly– as a literary device, it makes for some good… Continue reading Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Rapture for Nerds
This Is Not the Blog You’re Looking For
It’s a grey and rainy weekend morning, and I’m facing a day at work trying to put things in order before I leave for DAMOP on Tuesday, so I’m not in a big hurry to get moving. Of course, I’m not feeling all that inspired, blog-wise, either, so I’m going to fall back on one… Continue reading This Is Not the Blog You’re Looking For
New Physics Blogs
Well, OK, they’re mostly not new, just new to me. I’m vaguely ashamed at having to rely on Sean Carroll to point out new blogs to me, especially since one of the authors comments here moderately regularly, but my defense is that unlike faculty at semester schools, who are winding things down, I’m right in… Continue reading New Physics Blogs