Bora/ coturnix over at Science and Politics has generated a lot of conversation via his taxonomy of science blog posts, mostly relating to the call for people to start publishing data and hypotheses on blogs. Much of the discussion that I’ve seen centers on the question of “scooping” (see, for example, here and here), but… Continue reading Science Blogging or Blogging Science?
Category: Blogs
All About Vanity
I’d just like to note that I’m inordinately amused to find a blog called Mormon Philosophy and Theology linking me. I also seem to have picked up a sidebar link at Cocktail Party Physics, which reminds me that I really need to update the blogroll… These minor revelations brought to you by ego-surfing on Technorati…
New Aggregator
The people (well, person) who brought you the physics blog aggregator Mixed States have now rolled out a new biology-themed blog aggregator: Recombinants. At the moment, it only has about six feeds going into it, and the content is about 70% PZ Myers, so head over there and suggest some biology feeds to be added… Continue reading New Aggregator
Quote of the Day
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, writing about the phenomenon of fan fiction: Personally, I’m convinced that the legends of the Holy Grail are fanfic about the Eucharist. One of the most peevesome things about the hectic period I’m in at my day job is that I no longer have time to follow Making Light comment threads– I… Continue reading Quote of the Day
And the Problem is… What, Exactly?
The usual suspects are all upset about John Barrow’s crack about Richard Dawkins: When Selfish Gene author Richard Dawkins challenged physicist John Barrow on his formulation of the constants of nature at last summer’s Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship lectures, Barrow laughed and said, “You have a problem with these ideas, Richard, because you’re not really a… Continue reading And the Problem is… What, Exactly?
Call for Posts: Enough is Enough
Back when ScienceBlogs was all new and shiny, I did a couple of posts asking questions of the other bloggers. I got involved with other things after a while, and stopped posting those, so I’m not sure this will still work, but here’s a question for other ScienceBloggers, or science bloggers in general, that I… Continue reading Call for Posts: Enough is Enough
Inspiration at Last
Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog, and an excellente planne for a worke of grete literarye merit, including: The dog-maysteres Tale: the dog-mayster (talle, curtel of greene), his dogge, and his companiounes do fynde an olde wool-quaye that semeth to be havnted by a foule spectre – one of them has those fancie new eye-lenses, the… Continue reading Inspiration at Last
Greatest Science Book?
Over at the new Seed blog, here on ScienceBlogs, Katherine Sharpe asks about the best science books ever (a topic that was also discussed at Cosmic Variance some time back. I’ve been sort of swamped this week, but that’s only part of the reason why I haven’t responded. The main reason is a shameful secret:… Continue reading Greatest Science Book?
Truth is Stranger than Ficciones
Via Peg Kerr’s LiveJournal, an ABC News story that says we’re living in a Jorge Luis Borges story: So what is in the Gospel of Judas? It is a dialogue that claims to be a conversation between Jesus and Judas in which Jesus asks Judas to betray him. (And of course, you just know it… Continue reading Truth is Stranger than Ficciones
Universal Computer Simulator, Simulated
If you’ve ever read and been confused by computing theory books, you might appreciate the discussion of Turing machines at Good Math, Bad Math. Or, if you’re already happy with the whole Turing machine thing, you might just like that post for the link to a Turing machine simulator applet. Either way, it’s all good.