My Blog Post on Global Warming Won an Award!!!

w00t! My blog post on Urban Heat Islands has won the prestigious Editor's Selection Award from ResearchBlogging.org News!

See the awarding blog post here, and the awarded blog post here.

Thank you Sarah Kendrew.

Two other posts won the award as well: Ovarian Cancer at Microfluidic Future and In Praise of the Comet at the.soft.anonymous. I suppose we will be splitting the prize money.

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Sweet. Congratulations.