Week of Science Challenge -- One Week Away

By evolgen on January 29, 2007.

The Week of Science Challenge (official website here) begins next Monday (5 February 2007). During the time of the challenge, all participating bloggers will post at least once per day on science and only science -- no anti science or non-science material.

If you would like to participate, you can sign up here by providing your blog name, email address, blog URL, and blog RSS feed. There will be an official Week of Science feed made up of all the participating blogs.

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