Bringing the new neighbors some pi (a Sb 2.0 meme).

In honor of the arrival of all the new neighbors here at ScienceBlogs Towers, here's a little getting-acquainted meme.

3 reasons you blog about science:

1. To make the scientific method less scary to non-scientists.
2. To examine the ways in which behaving ethically really makes for better scientific knowledge.
3. Because I find science endlessly fascinating.

Point at which you would stop blogging:
If I ran out of things to say (which is hard for me to imagine).

1 thing you frequently blog besides science:
Academic stuff (pedagogical musings, rants about cheating, etc.)

4 words that describe your blogging style:

1. Conversational
2. Opinionated
3. Curious
4. Witty (sometimes ... I hope!)

(More decimal places after the jump!)

1 aspect of blogging you find difficult:
Figuring out the right thing to say about how to fix a particular problem with the practice of science.

5 ScienceBlogs blogs that are new to you:

1. The Frontal Cortex
2. Chemblog
3. Retrospectacle
4. Pure Pedantry
5. Dynamics of Cats

9 blogs you read outside the ScienceBlogs universe:

1. A Concerned Scientist
2. nanopolitan
3. Thus Spake Zuska
4. YoungFemaleScientist
5. ChemJerk
6. On being a scientist and a woman
7. Open Reading Frame
8. She Falters to Rise
9. Bee Policy

2 important features of your blogging environment:

1. White board or pad of paper -- to map out my thoughts before I start typing.
2. Coffee!

6 items you would bring to a meet-up with the other ScienceBloggers:

1. Geeky T-shirt.
2. William Shatner album.
3. Rat-a-Tat-Cat
4. Something to grill.
5. Dancing shoes.
6. Laptop.

5 conversations you would have before the end of that meet-up:

1. With Abel Pharmboy: a conversation about the pros and cons of growing up in New Jersey.
2. With Sandra Porter: a conversation about the entrepreneurial possibilities (?!) of philosophy.
3. With Mark Chu-Carroll: a comparison of math jokes (and limericks!).
4. With John Lynch: a discussion of underrated figures in the history of science.
5. With John Wilkins: a discussion of the best Tick episode ever.

Consider yourself tagged!