Just a question for readers. Let's exclude Cosmic Variance, what else out there is good? Any diamonds in the rough?
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ERV?
yeah, it's cool. i know about it. hopefully someone will throw out something i don't know about....
http://dcscience.net/ is always good.
I also read http://sciencereligionnews.blogspot.com/
hopefully someone will throw out something i don't know about.... Posted by: razib | January 16, 2008 4:15 AM
it's hard to find new blogs before you do, if you never sleep? ;)
I'm quite fond of Unscrewing The Inscrutable.
not ERV?
More like ERV!!!1111!!
She rocks, and stomps and has made Behe and Dembski cry.
She SHOULD be here. Don't make me start up a Congressional Investigation as to why she is not here...
Not Even Wrong
The Reference Frame
Climate Audit
TR Gregory
jonathan eisen
they blog about science, which is nice
dcscience is new to me. all the rest i know. i'm not bora here, i don't read that many blogs...this is kind of disconcerting ;-)
badscience.net
Phil Plait, badastronomy.com; Larry Moran, Sandwalk; Ben Goldacre badscience.net.
I've discovered science podcasts as well. Just the thing for a commute!
wuz the url for podcasts?
Pro Science, Back Reaction, John Hawks, Rigor Vitae, Zenobia (very focussed), Star Stryder, All My Faults Are Stress Related...
ridger, thanks, haven't heard of half of 'em. will check them out.
Podcasts:
Nature, Science, New Scientist, quirks and quarks, all have podcasts.
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/
http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/podcast/
http://www.newscientist.com/podcast.ns
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/
How about The Panda's Thumb? Have you heard of that one?
There's also ...
BayBlab
Botany Photo of the Day
Catalogue of Organisms
Deanne Taylor's Blog
Eye on DNA
Genetics & Health
Genomicron
John Hawks Anthropology
Sex, Genes & Evolution
Scienceroll
Scientia Natura: Evolution and Rationality
The Scientific Indian
The Tree of Life
and many others.
I've got to say that your question seems very condescending. You seem to be thinking that the SEED consortium has a hammerlock on good science blogs. That's just not true.
In my opinion, there are several bloggers on my list (above) who are superior to most of the "science" bloggers on ScienceBlogs(TM).
Your opinion may differ. Who do you think are the best three science bloggers in the SEED group? The emphasis here is on science. How do they stack up against John Hawks, Ryan Gregory, and John Logsdon, in your opinion?
and you, OTOH, Larry seem very defensive and similarly condescending about science blogging. lol.
snarking aside, what are the essential characteristics of a "science" blog as you'd have it?
jesus larry, stop being a fucking mind reader. how could it sound condescending, you don't know my tone unless you see magic accent markers in you text that others do not. i don't read many blogs so i was looking for stuff for my RSS. and yes, some of specifically regret that we didn't snag gregory.... (i think john passed)
Philip Downey has already mentioned some of my favorites, apart from my #1 personal fave, the Guardian science podcast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/podcast
I got excited when I saw the New Scientist in the list; I thought maybe they'd revived the podcast without telling me. Unfortunately, the last one on the page is from three months ago, when they discontinued it.
Googling science podcast will get you plenty more.
I aspire to one light, entertaining, science podcast I enjoy for each of my 10 commutes per week. Not quite there yet.