Blogospherics
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Blogger: Be more twitter friendly
Posted by Greg Laden on December 9, 2012 Dear Blogger, You should have a “tweet this” button on each blog post. It should open a window with the title of your post and a shortened URL to it. Extra stuff on there is OK but not necessary. Here is what the button with the bird on it (indicating twitter) should NOT do: 1)…
Who reads this blog, anyway?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2012 Who are you? When National Geographic branded Science Blogs, they also deleted our big giant collective Google Analytics Account and gave us each individual Google Analytics accounts. The bad news is that I then lost the ability to analyze use of my blog over the last few years, which was only of marginal value anyway,…
The Costs and Benefits of Bad Ads and What You Can Do About It
Posted by Greg Laden on March 13, 2012 The problem: You are reading your favorite blog and there is an ad along the top banner or on a sidebar that seems to conflict with the contents of the blog you are reading, perhaps even disturbingly so. Why does this happen and what can be done about it?
This blog is not moving anywhere. But …
Posted by Greg Laden on August 31, 2011 When we read about human evolution, we eventually get to the part about humans becoming “modern” (i.e., reaching the Platonic ideal, the End of the Linean Line, The upper middle part Catechism’s Great Chain of Being, the Archetype of the Repressed Middle Class, and all that other good stuff). That is the moment when we…
My New Old Blog
Posted by Greg Laden on August 13, 2011 Before joining Scienceblogs.com, I blogged independently at “Evolution … not just a theory anymore.” That was a cool name for a blog, but I didn’t transfer the name to Scienceblogs because there were already a whole bunch of blogs with “Evolution” in the name. There was a lot of stuff on that blog, mostly not…
Why Google Has Broken Its Promise To Never Be Evil
Posted by Greg Laden on August 1, 2011 This is about Google’s policy of only allowing “real” names for participants on Google+. Before I go into why this is evil, I want to point out without providing any details that I’ve already spotted dozens of pseudonymous people on Google+ that Google+ authorities have missed. So, their policy, as implemented, is absurd to a…
Haeckle, Health, and Humanism
Posted by Greg Laden on June 24, 2010 Does Haeckel get your hackles up? Just thumb your nose at him. Health Insurance Execs Face White House Grilling Humanism is not a religion
Did you know….
Posted by Greg Laden on June 23, 2010 Gay Men Remember Faces Better Than Straight Men Do Fruit fly sleep. The US government is at it again! (regarding GMOs) Nature photography is hard, but if done properly, the results will blow you away.
Weizmann Blogs
Posted by Greg Laden on June 22, 2010 The Weizmann Institute of Science is a basic research institute in Rehovot, Israel. About 2,700 graduate students, scientists and staff work in 100 buildings on a 300-acre campus. There are five faculties: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry and Mathematics and Computer Science; as well as the Feinberg Graduate School and an educational arm – the Davidson…
Links of interest
Posted by Greg Laden on June 22, 2010 Have a look at this video regarding creationist shenanigans on YouTube. Overview of the upcoming Sketpics’ Confernce in Oslo. Here. Invasive species get silly: Invasive Species and Botanical Xenophobia
Pointers
Posted by Greg Laden on June 8, 2010 Photographs from Luis Castillo’s “Michael Jackson Legacy Concert.” Today is World Environment Day Ajkaceratops, the dinosaur.
The June Wikio Rankings
Posted by Greg Laden on June 4, 2010 Here is a sneak preview of what the June Wikio rankings for Science Blogs is going to look like:
Divers questions and disparate answers
Posted by Greg Laden on May 24, 2010 While we’re waiting for Ask the Science Blogger to get off the ground, let’s see what is already out there:
Anti-Vax Discussion and Action.
Posted by Greg Laden on May 24, 2010 Discussion: PalMD, in Too many too soon?, compares the ravings Jenny McCarthy and her friends to actual scientific research. PZ Myers asks you to visit an Anti Vax poll. Here.
Ask a Science Blogger is Back
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2010 Do you have a burning question to put to the ScienceBlogs bloggers? Perhaps it’s ethical – should companies be able to patent specific genes? Should primates have the same rights in laboratory settings as humans? Maybe it’s silly – would you rather pet a dinosaur, or shake hands with a Neanderthal? Or maybe you’re just…
Iron Man, Gun Control, Bad Behavior, and 31 dollar water
Posted by Greg Laden on May 17, 2010 Page 3.14 and Jennifer Ouellette (and many others, see links therein) discuss Iron Man II. Julia and I saw it last night. It is good. When the credits come on, if you stand up and walk out you are a chump. Even though they are the longest credits ever shown in movie history (IMHO) you…
Reading material
Posted by Greg Laden on May 6, 2010 I usually don’t recommend blogs with light print on dark backgrounds, but you really should check out this paleontology oriented atheistic elementary school thing. Speaking of the paleo, check out laelaps new post on this interesting fossil fish. Flying Trilobite does Science Tatoos You’ve seen Class M on the BP spill, I assume. If not,…
Blogospherics: Interesting and important items
Posted by Greg Laden on May 1, 2010 Life, Death, Cancer is a blog post reflecting on the emotional difficulty of attending (and running in) a cancer-fighting race, and questioning the fund raising pragmatics of such things. This is also a great example of a person using a blog to address a personally difficult issue in a way that others will find useful…
Sunday Reading
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2010 The latest on whether or not skeptical people should go after the pope for facilitating child abuse, or just shut up and let everyone else handle it:
PZ Myers and Michael Ruse given Stamp of Approval by YNH Blog
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2010 The You’re Not Helping Blog, a blog written by a consortium of well known bloggers with the assigned task of determining which bloggers, and which blog posts, “help” vs. “not help” has certified certain things said by PZ Myres and Michael Ruse as …. A-OK! Check it out:
Recommended Reading from Sb
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2010 New autism study: science or nonsense? Having daughters makes you more left-wing (in Britain and Germany) or more right-wing (in the United States) Whatever Happend To “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar”????? If Boston Plans on Taxing Non-Profits, Tax All Non-Profits
Shut Down Joe Jervis for Hate Speech?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 26, 2010 …What about the hateful rhetorical attacks against me … that come routinely from the Left? … Honestly, this is the type of malicious, hateful slander I experience on a daily basis… has SPLC ever cited a homosexual activist group like ACT UP for “hateful” actions/assaults against religious groups? Have you investigated malicious websites like Joe…
February Wikio Science Blog Toplist Rankings
Posted by Greg Laden on February 3, 2010 Below you will find links to the top 20 “Science Blogs” listed by Wikio. Some time ago, Wikio asked me to help them with making sure that this list maintained a certain degree of integrity, avoiding creationist or denialist blogs for instance. This process … vetting blogs … is something that is philosophically difficult, but…
Discussing skepchickalism
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2010 Slandering the Skepchick bloggers (un)Becoming the Borg
OpenLab 2009 is done!
Posted by Greg Laden on January 13, 2010 OpenLab 2009 is a compilation of fifty blog posts chosen from several hundred nominated for 2009. For the second time I was a judge for OpenLab, and I can tell you that it is a shame to see only 50 selections given that many more than this number were clearly worthy. But that is what…
New Scienceblogs Dot Com Blogs
Posted by Greg Laden on January 11, 2010 Christina Agapakis is now blogging at Oscillator… and has some interesting stuff for you. Click her to visit. Vince LiCata is blogging at The Worlds’ Fair. Go say hey. And then there is this blog, which is meant to be a sort of repository for Science Online 10 stuff.
What really makes us different? (blogospherics)
Posted by Greg Laden on January 10, 2010 What is the role of culture in defining differences? Check this out. Gender differences: blue for boys and pink for girls? Check this out. Not all stars are created equal.
Interesting stuff on science, relgion, wooism, and social Darwinism
Posted by Greg Laden on January 8, 2010 Yes, There Are Religious Scientists, and They Aren’t the Enemy The Three Musketeers of Woo attack science-based medicine Deconstructing Social Darwinism, Part II Fox News: volcanic coal kills off dinosaurs before they even evolved
Items of Interest
Posted by Greg Laden on January 2, 2010 Rush Limbaugh is OK. Latest report here. Does HP make racist computers? Gendered Color Dichotomies with science toys at Toys R Us
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A Comment On Bora’s Comment On Commenting Threads
I was recently engaged in a blog battle with Anthony Watts over his insufficiently skeptical (in my opinion) treatment of a discredited report of a meteorite of Martian origin bearing the remains of microscopic organisms. As this argument progressed, some dude on Twitter noted that the credibility of a blog post was determined by the…