I make a habit of checking my Technorati search results regularly, partly because I'm just vain enough to care that other people are linking to me (my rank is holding steady in the 8,000's, but it hasn't updated in a while), but mostly because it's a good way to find new blogs, and there are a few new science-type blogs linking to me.
The most developed to this point has to be metadatta, written by an undergraduate student at UPenn. He's working on a series of nice posts about liquid crystals Part I, Part II, Part III) and it generally looks pretty interesting.
There's also Remaining Eye, at which a postdoc friend is keeping notes on papers of interest. Only a couple of articles so far, but it might be a good resource for keeping up with atomic physics, if he keeps it up. No pressure.
And, of course, one of the freaky things about technorati is that it sometimes picks up blogs that have barely even gotten started, such as Decoherent Ramblings, which has a whopping one post, dated yesterday, and a nice banner photo. It's another undergraduate student blog, and I'll be interested to see where it goes, or if linking this scares him off completely...
There are also new links from more established blogs, and the obligatory links from crazy people. Poking at Technorati is a great work-avoidance strategy, really.
Though it's only a few days since the official Open Pimping Thread, I'll open this up to the pimping of blogs specifically: If you're writing (or just know of) a blog that I ought to be reading, leave a link in the comments. I promise I'll at least look at all the links that are left before, let's say, midnight Wednesday (the 17th), and if I like what I see, I'll link to it from here.
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There's a really cool physics blog over here.
My blog's aimed at science & engineering librarians, but I think it also functions pretty well as a way for librarians to reach out to scitech faculty and talk about ways we can work together to make student's lives a little easier & more productive.
Ignorance can be educated, stupidity is forever. Crazy generally demands some entertainment value. No religion can survive laughter. A water droplet has been made to spontaneously roll 15 degrees uphill, but it required scientists to do it,
Science 256 1539 (1993)
Science 291 633 (2001)
Langmuir 20 4085 (2004)
A mob with pitchforks and torches has a strong point of sale argument. When they arrive back home and their faucets are dry with the power out and their telephones dead, that is a stronger argument - by better men who did nothing (possibly followed by laughter).
You've previously been kind enough to link to my history of Ancient Egypt in Ten Paragraphs, but I'm shameless enough to point out that I'm also attempting to explain modern theoretical physics to a popular audience in a series starting with Maps of Physics. I'm inordinately proud of some of the diagrams in the sections on special relativity.
Thanks for the link!
My blog is called Adventures in Economics and is written by a free market economist.
Heya Doc Orzel,
I've just started my new Physics/Music/Rubbish blog, and have put you in the blogroll! Common courtesy dictates I should at least introduce myself! I'm Fran, a 3rd year Physics undergrad at Imperial College London.
Anyways, I'll see you around!
I suggest linking to Doug Natelson's Nanoscale Views, which refreshingly enough is about condensed matter physics.