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I'm going to jump into the framing wars again. As I mentioned last time, I think that most folks who are "opposed" to framing really don't understand what they're talking about - and I'll once again explain why. But...
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Posted on March 25, 2008 10:24 AM • 95 Comments •
As you've probably noticed, things have been rather slow around here lately. I've got more posts in the works on group theory and abstract algebra - but they take a lot of time to research and write, so they'll...
Posted on March 18, 2008 8:18 AM • 74 Comments •
At Science, Education, and Society, the Urban Scientist posts a meme to name five women scientists from each of a list of fields. Sadly, my fields are left off the list. So I'll respond in my own way by...
Posted on March 11, 2008 12:39 PM • 23 Comments •
Over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, Janet Stemwedel, our resident ethicist, has been writing about academic dishonesty and how professional researchers should respond to it. I've been on the receiving end of dishonesty on three occasions - ranging...
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Posted on February 21, 2008 1:16 PM • 22 Comments •
I was just perusing my stats on sitemeter - and to my amazement, I discovered that Good Math/Bad Math had its 2 millionth view this weekend. 2 million pageviews! I never dreamt that this little blog would ever see a...
Posted on January 9, 2008 10:12 PM • 16 Comments •
ScienceBlogs recently branched out and opened up a German-language edition of ScienceBlogs in cooperation with a German media firm. Over at the in-house blog Page 3.14, our blogging goddess, Ginny, is asking for help with what languages readers think SB...
Posted on December 11, 2007 3:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm leaving on vacation. I'll be spending the week in Yellowstone National Park. I'm not sure what the network situation is there, but I'm not expecting much. Unfortunately, this year I didn't have time to...
Posted on August 24, 2007 9:16 PM • 5 Comments •
This weekend, Seed Media, our benevolent and beloved corporate overlords, sponsored a Scibling gathering: ScienceBloggers from all over the country (and outside) all gathered in New York, ate, drank, and partied. It made for quite an interesting weekend. I...
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Posted on August 19, 2007 7:29 PM • 13 Comments •
The 9th Carnival of Mathematics is live at JD2718, in a cleverly alphabetical form....
Posted on June 2, 2007 8:21 PM • 1 Comments •
We've been having some problem with popups showing up on scienceblogs. It's not deliberate: Seed does not accept popup ads. But it appears that one snuck in somehow, but no one is sure where it's coming from. If you...
Posted on May 24, 2007 7:58 AM • 14 Comments •
Our corporate masters at Seed have added a new blog to ScienceBlogs, and it looks like a real winner. It's called the Denialism Blog, and it's off to a roaring great start with "The Unified Theory of the Crank....
Posted on April 30, 2007 4:02 PM • 2 Comments •
(This issue came to a happy conclusion. After the uproar generated by this being publicized by so many blogs and websites, the publisher got in touch with Shelley, gave her permission to use the figures, apologized, and promised to do...
Posted on April 25, 2007 10:29 AM • 21 Comments •
This post is a quick moderation update, caused by recent crap going on in the comment threads involving George "First Scientific Proof of God" Shollenberger, combined with my recent change of employment. Before changing jobs, my old employer was...
Posted on April 8, 2007 11:27 AM • 8 Comments •
Fuck. Ok. Now I'm seriously pissed off. What a miserable way to ruin god-damned april fools day....
Posted on April 1, 2007 2:42 PM • 30 Comments •
I just realized that I've been writing this blog for a whole year! I managed to miss the actual anniversary, which was on thursday. It's hard to believe that I've been doing it for a full year. When I...
Posted on March 10, 2007 10:41 AM • 19 Comments •
The third edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is out: this time around, it's hosted at Michi's Place. The next edition will be up in two weeks at my fellow ScienceBlogger Jason Rosenhouse's EvolutionBlog....
Posted on March 9, 2007 7:15 PM • 3 Comments •
So as many other folks have been pointing out, the Koufax awards have come out with their "Best Expert Blog" nominations, and I'm incredibly pleased to say that GM/BM was nominated! In case you're not familiar, the Koufaxes are...
Posted on February 20, 2007 5:11 PM • 1 Comments •
Many of my fellow ScienceBloggers have recently declared their membership in Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. I've been busy, so I haven't been able to get around to signing up until now....
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Posted on February 20, 2007 11:44 AM • 3 Comments •
Just a quick reminder: the second Carnival of Mathematics is coming up this friday, to be hosted here at GM/BM. If you've written any math related articles, get me a link by thursday at the latest. You can either send...
Posted on February 19, 2007 1:34 PM • 1 Comments •
Finally, the math geeks of the blogosphere are going to have a carnival of our own! Alon Levy of Abstract Nonsense (which I really need to add to my blogroll!) has taken the initiative and started the Carnival of...
Posted on February 1, 2007 8:23 AM • 2 Comments •
I've gotten complaints from a bunch of commenters about problems with comments getting thrown into the moderation queue by the spam filter. Things with too many links, or with certain text properties, were getting caught even though they are clearly...
Posted on January 18, 2007 3:31 PM • 8 Comments •
Here at ScienceBlogs, we've got our own back-channel forums for the bloggers to chat with each other. An idea that came up, which a bunch of us are interested in, is doing some posts about basic definitions and basic concepts....
Posted on January 12, 2007 8:43 PM • 54 Comments •
Shelley started it, then PZ joined in. Who am I to stop it?...
Posted on January 12, 2007 11:21 AM • 5 Comments •
GM/BM has been pretty slow overall this week, both in new posts and in my responses to comments on previous posts. It was both bigtime deadline week on my project at work; and a very bad week for family health...
Posted on December 15, 2006 8:05 PM • 4 Comments •
Don't forgot: GM/BM is a finalist in the weblog competition for best science blog. I've got no chance of winning, but there's a slim chance that I could make third or fourth. You can vote once per day....
Posted on December 13, 2006 4:06 PM • 0 Comments •
So, Goodmath/Badmath was nominated for a weblog award for the best science blog. I was actually planning on ignoring it for two reasons. First, Pharyngula was nominated in the same category, and there is absolutely no way that I...
Posted on December 9, 2006 10:58 AM • 6 Comments • 3 TrackBacks
As you may have noticed, lately, I've been fascinated by Haskell. I haven't done anything much in it until quite recently; it's been sitting in my to-do queue for a long time. This weekend, I was hacking away on a...
Posted on November 25, 2006 7:18 PM • 32 Comments •
As you may have heard from some of the other ScienceBlogs, our SciBling Shelley Batts, of Retrospectacle is competing for a scholarship being given to bloggers. Shelley's a great writer, and on her way to becoming a great scientist. Please...
Posted on November 3, 2006 2:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Sorry for the sudden silence on the blog. My computer died on me yesterday, and so I've been rather cut off. I'm in the process of setting up my gorgeous brand new MacBookPro, and things should be getting back to...
Posted on October 23, 2006 8:07 PM • 3 Comments •
Yes, it appears that I have won the great ScienceBlogs nerdoff/geekoff. Janet announced the results yesterday, and despite much whining, I'm proud to say that I was the winner. There was some stiff competition, particularly from Orac, but in the...
Posted on September 19, 2006 3:49 PM • 24 Comments •
A few of my recent posts here appear to have struck some nerves, and I've been getting lots of annoying email containing the same questions, over and over again. So rather than reply individually, I'm going to answer them here...
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Posted on September 6, 2006 2:29 PM • 22 Comments •
I'm leaving on vacation today. I'll be away for a week, with intermittent internet access. And even when I have access, I doubt I'll have much time to do blog-related stuff. I've scheduled a bunch of reposts of some of...
Posted on August 26, 2006 10:09 AM • 1 Comments •
The category theory series is finally winding down; I've got one topic I'd like to write about, and then I'll have had my fill of category theory for a while. I don't want to dive right in to another really...
Posted on August 1, 2006 6:59 PM • 59 Comments •
Just so folks know: ScienceBlogs is experimenting with some new anti-spam stuff, which should do away with the need for typekey. I've disabled typekey for Goodmath/Badmath, and we'll how it goes. If you've got cookies or cached data for the...
Posted on July 7, 2006 8:35 PM • 3 Comments •
As you can see, there's a new site banner. I got about a dozen submissions this time. They were all terrific, but something about this one just really grabbed me; it was absolutely exactly what I wanted. It was designed...
Posted on July 6, 2006 8:13 PM • 2 Comments •
As lots of folks around SB have been commenting today, Nature magazine has come up with a list of the top 50 science blogs, based on technorati ratings. According to them, GM/BM is the number 45 science blog in the...
Posted on July 5, 2006 9:45 PM • 6 Comments •
As you may have noticed, there's a site banner up there now. I only received one submission back when I requested people to submit banners. , and it just didn't quite work for me. (Bit too dark, and I didn't...
Posted on July 4, 2006 11:46 AM • 7 Comments •
Here at SB, we use Google analytics for getting info about how many people are reading our blogs, and how they get here. I also have a SiteMeter monitor on GM/BM. One thing that I get a kick out of...
Posted on June 25, 2006 11:25 AM • 9 Comments •
The new ScienceBlogs homepage just went up, and all of my fellow new SBers are now public. There's a lot of great new stuff....
Posted on June 9, 2006 1:12 PM • 0 Comments •
As I mentioned here, back on the old home of goodmath, I was taking a poll of what good math topic to cover next. In that poll, graph theory and topology were far away the most popular topics, tying for...
Posted on June 6, 2006 11:52 AM • 6 Comments •
A lot of people have said that they'd be willing to try making a banner for the site, but that they'd like me to provide a bit more info on what I'd like. Relatively subdued colors; no hot pink. My...
Posted on June 6, 2006 9:29 AM • 1 Comments •
If you take a look around scienceblogs, a lot of the folks here have really beautiful banners for their blogs. Like, for example: Aetiology (my personal favorite banner, and one of my favorite blogs) Afarensis Living the Scientific Life Unfortunately,...
Posted on June 5, 2006 8:07 PM • 4 Comments •
Welcome to the new home of Good Math, Bad Math. I thought I'd take the opportunity of moving to this lovely new home to introduce myself. I'm Mark Chu-Carroll, a math geek with a PhD in Computer Science. I work...
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Posted on June 5, 2006 3:02 PM • 10 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
