Links
A few of the many blogs that I like:
- Adventures in Ethics and Science — the ethical issues involved in science, teaching, and communication
- Afarensis — anthropology, evolution, and science
- Bad Astronomy — debunking pseudo-science since… oh… about 2000
- Chemistry for a Sustainable World — “green” chemistry, presented for the non-technical reader
- Clastic Detritus — a good geology blog
- Cognitive Daily — updates on cognitive psychology
- Cosmic Variance — cosmology and such
- Discovering Biology in a Digital World
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars — thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law, and culture
- Framing Science — how politicians, scientists, and the news media define and present issues of the day
- Highly Allochthonous — another good geology blog
- History According to Bob — history in depth, presented in an interesting and informal way
- Interesting Thing of the Day — lots of odd and unusual stuff
- The Intersection — culture, science, and climate
- The Loom — life, past and future
- Mike the Mad Biologist — politics, evolution, and microbiology
- Of Two Minds — neurology and psychology and other brainy subjects, this is a ‘new’ blog formed by the merger of Retrospectacle and Omni Brain
- The Panda’s Thumb — evolutionary theory, science education, etc.
- Respectful Insolence — ramblings on quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and the like
- SciAm Observations — from the editors of Scientific American
- Star Stryder — good, in-depth astronomy from Dr. Pamela Gay (once part of Slacker Astronomy, now half of the Astronomy Cast podcast)
- Terra Sigillata — medical / pharmaceutical blogging
Interesting, mostly-science-related blog carnivals (these are the carnival homepages; each new issue is generally posted in some new place):
- The Accretionary Wedge — geology
- All Things Eco
- Bio::Blogs — bioinformatics
- The Boneyard — paleontology
- Books Carnival
- Carnivalesque — pre-modern history
- Carnival of Education
- The Carnival of Mathematics — various mathematical items of interest
- The Carnival of Space — all about space stuff
- Carnival of the Green
- Circus of the Spineless — invertebrates
- Encephalon — a neuroscience blog carnival
- Festival of the Trees
- Four Stone Hearth — anthropology
- Friday Ark
- Gene Genie — genetics and such
- The Giant’s Shoulders — posts on ‘classic’ science papers
- Grand Rounds — things medical
- I and the Bird
- Medicine 2.0 — the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and life sciences
- Mendel’s Garden — genetics
- Oekologie — environmental sciences
- Skeptics’ Circle — skepticism, critical thinking
- Scientiae — women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
- The Tangled Bank — biology
Podcasts that I like:
- Astronomy Cast — good explanation of “what’s up”
- History According to Bob — good history podcast by a professor of same
- Matt’s Today in History — a (nearly) daily, short dose of history
- Nature Podcast — if you can’t afford the magazine, at least you can listen to the podcast
- Planetary Radio — the Planetary Society’s podcast
- Skepticality — the official podcast of Skeptic magazine
- Slacker Astronomy — more audio astronomy goodness!
- The Onion Radio News — half the news is phoney anyway, you might as well get your fake news delivered with an ironic sense of humor
- The Universe Today — yet more audio astronomy
Other handy and / or fun sites:
- CIAC Hoaxbusters pages
- How Stuff Works
- James Randi Educational Foundation
- A List of Fallacious Arguments (logical fallacies)
- Snopes Urban Legends Reference Pages
- The Urban Legend Zeitgeist
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