Carnivals of the week

By tsmith on September 28, 2006.

While I've been out, missed highlighting a few carnivals:

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Let's catch up with the carnivals: I and the Bird #73 Carnival of the Fraudless Carnival of the Liberals #63 Skeptics' Circle #85 We've got a new Tangled Bank at Dammit Jim! next Wednesday — send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net. Libra: There's a choice to be made. You can live fast…

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Three announcements about blog carnivals of interest to my readers: Medical blogging: Grand Rounds, vol. 3, no. 19 has been posted at Envisioning 2.0. Science blogging: Tangled Bank #72 has been posted at Ouroboros. Skeptical blogging: The Skeptics' Circle will be appearing tomorrow at Slicing…

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I am assuming that many bloggers will ease up on posting over the holiday break, but there is still plenty of good stuff to read - just browse the latest carnivals: Tangled Bank #67: Giving thanks for science - now up on Newton's Binomium The 48th meeting of the Skeptics' Circle: last will and…

Carnivalia and an open thread

The newest Tangled Bank will be at rENNISance woman on Wednesday, so send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net soon. Meanwhile, you could read these other carnivals: Humanist Symposium #17 Circus of the Spineless I and the Bird #72 Skeptics' Circle #84 Friday Ark #186

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