While you are digesting….
From 1890: The First Text Messages and Passing A Good Joke Along The Wire and The Victorian Internet and Dawn of the Wireless Phone (1901) and Twitter in 1935.
Rethinking the gene: The popular notion of genetics is wrong
A new scientific source of bias: SILLY bias. Analysis of citations of BMJ’s Christmas articles.
Kurzweil, the Singularity and His Futurism
Science 3.0 will be in attendance at Science Online 2011
Writing, Cloud Computing, and #scio11
Author of the Day: Greg Gbur and Author of the Day: Mary Knudson and Author of the Day: Chris Mooney
Did ‘Shrooms Send Santa And His Reindeer Flying?
Higher Education — Turning a Painful Reality Into a Thriving Digital Business and The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)
ResearchBlogging.org now supports Italian-language posts
Recent developments in sociobiology and the scientific method
NERS Review of the Year Part 1 – the “They did what now?” edition and NERS Review of the Year Part 2 – Animals bring the awe and NERS Review of the Year Part 3 – Science and society
Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?
Will K2 Spice sellers take a bath? Can you spell MDPV?
Seven-month-old babies can ‘read minds’
The animal world has its junkies too
Recommended: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout
Executions fall due to cost, lack of lethal drug
Obama administration reverses Bush wilderness policy
U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks
U.N. species convention seen needing urgent reform
Magical thinking enhances creativity
Early exposure to skeptical thinking: navigating the chicken and egg syndrome
IceCube Weekly Construction Report, December 13th through December 19th 2010, South Pole Station and IceCube Complete Just in Time for Christmas
Don’t change your worldview based on one study
I love the smell of irony in the morning. It smells like…schadenfreude
Is What WikiLeaks Does Journalism? Good Question
Friday Weird Science: A Festive New Way to Dye Holiday Lingerie!
Readers’ choices: Top 10 Scientific American stories of 2010
You wouldn’t lie to me, would you?
Letters to Washington, interesting on WikiLeaks, break-up of Yugoslavia, etc.
The Science of the Christmas Truce and Lessons from the Christmas Truce of 1914
Karan Casey – Johnny I hardly knew ye and La Chanson des Vieux Amants– Judy Bright live at No Exit
It’s the Christmas Friday Puzzle!
Guaranteed White Christmas for the Albino Redwood
The discovery of the ruins of ice
Blogging my way to the North Pole.
Feministing Friday: Beauty or Brains what matters most in today’s dating scene?
Students do the darndest things.
What criteria makes Gulf seafood “safe to eat”?
The Blogsphere is alive to the sound of PODCASTS
Cambridge university refuses to censor student’s thesis on chip-and-PIN vulnerabilities
HeLa, telomeres, and the death of my free time
The 100 Most Beautiful in English
Feminist Ideals for a Healthy Female Adolescent Sexuality: A Critique (PDF)
U.S. Pig Farms May Be ‘Flu Factories’
Spam Journalism #83 – “Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.”
You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends – Just to clarify, I think Dunbar is dead wrong. One day that post will get written, explaining why I think that…
Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming
Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours
Fixing the economy the scientific way
Elegantly Old School: Nostalgia Books On The Rise
The iPad for a Professor- Why I Love It
Do you have a brain for social networks?