The top five...
Nature has listed the Top Five science blogs on the web.
The list was compiled by the "Technorati" blog search. However, only 5 science blogs made it into the top 3500 blogs. Does that seem a bit low?
The nature article is here.
The top five science blogs are:
1) Pharyngula (at 179th overall).
- not sure myself what a pharyngula is, I think you have to check out the site yourself.
2) Panda's Thumb (1647th)
3) Real Climate (1884th)
4) Cosmic Variance (2174th)
5) Scientific Activist (3429th)
This last one, Nick Anthis's, has a funny story behind its popularity. Apparently Nick first blew the whistle on a high-ranking official at NASA having lied about graduating from Texas A&M University. How bad is that. Working at NASA and lying about your degree? Anyway, Nick spilt the beans during the censorship row at NASA early this year, and it blew out into major international news - which is always a sure path to popularity.
Congratulations to the winners. One wonders what the rest of the 3495 blogs were about, though. 5 out of 3500 blogs isn't that much; scientists constitute only 0.14% of the top ranking blogs, despite the many important things they should be saying. I reckon we can do better than this!
Just as an aside, the top 50 science blogs can be found here.
I recommend the The disgruntled chemist and Mike the mad biologist. Angry young scientists. Should be more of 'em.
The list was compiled by the "Technorati" blog search. However, only 5 science blogs made it into the top 3500 blogs. Does that seem a bit low?
The nature article is here.
The top five science blogs are:
1) Pharyngula (at 179th overall).
- not sure myself what a pharyngula is, I think you have to check out the site yourself.
2) Panda's Thumb (1647th)
3) Real Climate (1884th)
4) Cosmic Variance (2174th)
5) Scientific Activist (3429th)
This last one, Nick Anthis's, has a funny story behind its popularity. Apparently Nick first blew the whistle on a high-ranking official at NASA having lied about graduating from Texas A&M University. How bad is that. Working at NASA and lying about your degree? Anyway, Nick spilt the beans during the censorship row at NASA early this year, and it blew out into major international news - which is always a sure path to popularity.
Congratulations to the winners. One wonders what the rest of the 3495 blogs were about, though. 5 out of 3500 blogs isn't that much; scientists constitute only 0.14% of the top ranking blogs, despite the many important things they should be saying. I reckon we can do better than this!
Just as an aside, the top 50 science blogs can be found here.
I recommend the The disgruntled chemist and Mike the mad biologist. Angry young scientists. Should be more of 'em.
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