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Chad Orzel "Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)

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Science Habitat Photo Contest

The Corporate Masters are holding a workspace photo contest: Now hard at work on the next issue, Seed editors want to see the typical or not-so-typical places where you do science. For the chance to get your scientific work space...

Weirdness Facilitation

Jacques Distler asks the question that every blog-reader has asked at some point: Did all of this exist before the Web? Or have people just gotten a whole lot weirder in the past 15 years? (I'm not even going to...

A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?

There's absolutely no reason we couldn't launch the ScienceBlogs.com Online Film Festival right now.

You Don't Know Me

The fact that there is a real name associated with this blog, and that you can Google me to your heart's content does not mean that you know me any better than if I signed all my blog posts with some preposterous Internet pseudonym.

John Scalzi Should Be Ashamed of Himself

I'm not sure whether he's making some kind of obscure point, or just trolling, but John Scalzi gave a recent installment of his "Big Idea" series over to the witterings of "Vox Day," talking about his book The Irrational Atheist....

The Cost of Not Framing

What's the cost of not framing? Me, and people like me.

Science in the 21st Century

The Perimeter Institute will be hosting a workshop in September on "Science in the 21st Century": Times are changing. In the earlier days, we used to go to the library, today we search and archive our papers online. We have...

The Framing Fracas

Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet have made some tactical errors, but they're more right than wrong, given what they want to accomplish.

The Definitive Statement on "Framing" and Expelled

Chris Mooney's mea culpa post finally motivates me to say something about the recent framing fracas.

On Moderation

My personal approach to comments and comment moderation.

Literary Divination

Using books to fortell the future.

Ask Me Uncomfortable Questions

Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it.

What Kind of Blogging Brings the Most Traffic?

The results from an inadvertent experiment comparing peer-reviewed research blogging to less hard-core science.

Interstellar Economics

Paul Krugman is now a famour economist, but many years ago, he was "an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race." So, he did what any good academic would do in that situation: he wrote a silly...

Pimp Me New Blogs

Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean has a post highlighting some physics blogs that he's adding to the blogroll. Which reminds me that I've been remiss in updating my own links-- I've recently started reading Swans On Tea regularly, and he's...

Do You Feel Super?

ScienceBlogs is launching a new "Super Reader" program, where each blogger can nominate two readers as "Super Readers" who will be given the ability to tag three posts a week from all of ScienceBlogs for a special RSS feed (this...

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