This is maybe my favorite and/or the most aggressively nerdy thing on ScienceBlogs so far: it's smoking hot, one-on-one, science competition in the abstract, with brackets and everything. Way more interesting than stupid college sports.
Obviously, I'm most interested in the life sciences bracket, but other flavors of geek should have a look at the other brackets.
Defense! Or whatever.
More like this
This one was immense. It was also a dual effort (and not by "one of the guys" at the blog). Like the Puzzle Fantastica, this one is very difficult to re-post in its entirety. Luckily, Dave made a great graphic with links embedded to each game.
It's March, and you know what that means: brackets. There are two ScienceBlogs brackets to keep your eye on:
One good thing about the election is that I don't instinctively flinch every time the White House releases new policy initiatives. Case in point: tax expenditures. What's a tax expenditure?