Here is an example of perfect science blogging. It starts seemingly innocuously, with a quiz: Monday's Molecule #30, where you are supposed to figure out what the compound is.
Then, after a couple of days, there is a post that you may not even realize at first is related to the first one: Bacteria Have Cell Walls
Another day or two, and A and B get connected: How Penicillin Works to Kill Bacteria
But how do we know this? Well, some people figured it out: Nobel Laureates: Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey - and now you know how we know.
Finally, putting everything in context of science, society, medicine and history, a two-parter: Penicillin Resistance in Bacteria: Before 1960 and Penecillin Resistance in Bacteria: After 1960
A tour-de-force of science blogging. I wish I could do something like that.
Comments
I find it helps, if you are a knowitall bastard, to actually know it all, which Larry, damn him, does.
Posted by: John Wilkins | June 17, 2007 11:19 PM
Thank-you. I try to do one of these every week. It's taking up a lot of time so I really appreciate hearing that somebody has actually read my postings.
Posted by: Larry Moran | June 18, 2007 6:36 AM