[An old post I’m fond of]
Author: Matt Kristoffersen
Susan, a graduate student, writes,
Between scrambling to finish some big projects and avoiding summer brain-fry, I haven’t been doing much science blogging recently. And now I’ll be taking a few days away from blogging altogether. It’s not a blackout at the Loom, though; just a brown-out. I’m going to schedule some old posts I’m fond of, as well as a backlog of science tattoos. Later this month I’ll be rested, refreshed, and ready to blog anew.
Originally published July 9, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
A quick update to my post from yesterday about Scienceblogs. The dreaded Pepsi blog is gone. Details from PZ Myers and Paul Raeburn.
Originally published July 8, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
It sounds cool to say maybe the Internet has turned us all into one giant superorganism, as Robert Wright does today in the Opinionator blog at the New York Times. But before we bandy about cool-sounding words, it’s necessary to think hard about what they mean–particularly, what they mean to the biologists who first developed them as concepts.
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