- A group of bloggers has begun an initiative to post on science only for the week beginning February 5. We're in, but then again, that's what we do every week!
- Everything you want to know about the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference this weekend. We'll be there.
- Everything you want to know about the Science Blogging Anthology. Corturnix really is good at these encyclopedic posts, isn't he?
- Two new ScienceBlogs, both medical-related: Sign Out and ScienceToLife.
- A great new (to me) blog on "cognitive robotics."
- Truly bizarre: In some cases, shorter visual searches are more accurate than longer searches of the same area.
- More on unethical ethicists: They steal more old books, too.
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