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You Can Let Wikipedia Think For You!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 23, 2010 There are three ways in which Wikipedia is very counterproductive when it comes to having conversations. 1) Sometimes it is not correct, but is taken as gospel. This is rare, because errors that are encountered when this happens tend to get fixed, but it does happen; 2) Wikipedia, with it’s strident empirical approach and narrow…
There is a new blogging network in town: PLoS BLoGs
Posted by Greg Laden on September 1, 2010 PLoS has had a few blogs all along, PLoS.org, everyONE and Speaking of Medicine (the PLoS ONE and PLoS Medicine community blogs respectively). But now there is a new network, at blogs.plos.org, which includes a number of new blogs, including a couple of Scienceblogs.com diasporics. The new blogs are:
You can torture me all you want, I’m not revealing the details of the conspiracy.
Posted by Greg Laden on August 26, 2010 No, wait, wait, I didn’t mean that. I’LL TALK! Just don’t hurt me!
The post-Pepsiblawg world looks a lot like the pre-Pepsiblawg world
Posted by Greg Laden on August 10, 2010 I wonder if being accurate is important in a discussion about the Post Pepsiblawg world, like this one on Science 2.0. If so, that post and some others I’ve seen are going to need some serious rewrite.
Please help a guy out
Posted by Greg Laden on July 24, 2010 I’ve mentioned before that there is a web page set up by Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sigillata to raise some money for Bora Zivkovic, recently of Scienceblogs.com but now detached from that network. Bora is the community organizer for PLoS, and is a scientist interested in biological clocks, which is why his blog was named…
If I say something bad about Pepsico, will I get in trouble?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 6, 2010 I once did a contract job for Pepsico. It went fine, but during the fieldwork, we noticed that every overhead utility wire and several prominent tree branches in the undeveloped forest we were surveying for archaeological sites had soda bottles strung over them, like those fetishes hanging around in the forest in the Blaire Witch…
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
You’re not helping has melted down. And has got it wrong. And isn’t helping.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 22, 2010 You’re not helping has proven its analytical illiteracy and disregard for reason and truth in a rather ironic way: By demonstrating biased ‘reasoning’ and ad hominem argument in a blog post about how another blog is not really a science blog. Some time ago they selected Why Evolution is True as a blog they hate,…
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…
Maybe the Skepchicks should just call themselves the Sexchicks!?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2010 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In a recent post, I relied on this principle but I think it did not work for a lot of readers. So I want to try this again but using additional words to augment the pictures. This is about the sex-appeal of the skepchicks.
Discussing skepchickalism
Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2010 Slandering the Skepchick bloggers (un)Becoming the Borg
Anton Zuiker provides perspective for Science Online 10 (#scio10)
Posted by Greg Laden on January 18, 2010 I pointed to this earlier, but I think it deserves its own post (hat tip ABATC)
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.
, which is now available for the 
