T. Ryan Gregory has survived a whole year of blogging, and has also managed to produce a blog that is one of my must-reads.
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I am back at home, ill, but I managed to mooch a neighbor's uncharacteristically open wireless connection so I have been talking with one of my readers about one of our favorite topics: books. I love reading fiction when I am sick, and currently, I…
One of the best blogs out there, Terra Sigillata, seemed to have gone on a bit of a hiatus for a while, but Abel Pharmboy is back and better than ever.
His posts over the last 8 weeks or so are all must-reads. Go, read, discuss.
I posted 133 times in March.
I was quite focused on science communication and journalism this month and blogged quite a lot about these topics. See, for example, Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers, or New science journalism ecosystem: new inter-species interactions…
The monthly history of science carnival is now up at The Dispersal of Darwin. This is one of the best collections produced yet, proving that The Giant's Shoulders' second year is getting off to a tremendous start. Head on over to check out these great posts.
My favorites in this edition include…
Yeah! Go Canada! :)
In other news, score another one for the transitional fossils.
Sigh. Someday I will scoop you, Dr. Myers. Someday...
"They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece -- not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home...
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December...
Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet."
http://tinyurl.com/6gcnng
So you're saying he has a high fitness, and is passing on his memes?
OT, but well worth a look. Time has reported on Expelled, and PZ gets a mention, if not a very favorable one:
It gives too much credit to ID claims, no question. And the author seems not to understand why the sneering at IDists and their unrelenting lies has to happen. The science side would look like fools (and find the situation intolerable) if they were to treat every repetition of every cheap shot by the creos/IDists as if it were some grand and telling objection to a theory that long ago answered most such objections (while those not answered are the usual sorts known in ongoing scientific programs).
It's not an ideal article at all, then, but at least the bizarre claims by Stein & co. are highlighted.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
"A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish."
Actually, I kind of like that.
He hasn't really made it until he's been misquoted by a creationist.
I took the opportunity to read some of his blogs on anti-evolutionism. The reads are very interesting, intelligible to the majority of readers, and excellent refutation material. I am going to subscribe. Thanks for the link PZ!
what's wrong with writing it "god"?
it's not as if it's a proper noun...
On several aspects of science in the media, I discovered this series by Charlie Rose. h/t to Millard Fillmore's Bathtub. "The Imperative of Science".
http://www.pfizer.com/think/cr_sciencelanding.jsp
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/04/07/1/charlie-rose-science-seri…
I poked around that site for a minute and found a link to "graph jam" where I found a graph that clued me into the existence of google.com/trends
It didn't take me long to perform this search, which is both heartening and worrying. On one hand, searches for evolution are far higher than for intelligent design or creationism, but searches about evolution seem to be declining overall. And it gets worse.
Needless to say, this is an awesome toy.