Blog ranking - November 2009

Wired Science

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience

Musings on the latest science news, from deep space to DNA sequencing.

• Top posts
  • Scientists Scan the Brains of Mice Playing Quake
  • 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography
  • Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts

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Watts Up With That?

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts

• Top posts
  • Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton
  • The Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Draft – wealth transfer defined, now with new and improved “dignity” penalty
  • Quote of the week #20 – ding dong the stick is dead

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Climate Progress

http://climateprogress.org

The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics

• Top posts
  • Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics’: New book pushes global cooling myths, sheer illogic, and “patent nonsense” — and the primary climatologist it relies on, Ken Caldeira, says “it is an inaccurate portrayal of me” and “misleading” in “many” places.
  • Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics’, Part 2: Who else have Nathan Myhrvold and the Groupthinkers at Intellectual Ventures duped and confused? Would you believe Bill Gates and Warren Buffett?
  • Error-riddled Superfreakonomics, Part 4: They get the economics dead wrong, too, and their response to critics is full of misrepresentations, just like their book

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Bad Astronomy

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy

I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.

• Top posts
  • Latvian meteorite impact: fake
  • LCROSS impact site picked
  • 50 trippy years of space trips

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Dispatches from the Culture Wars

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches

Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture

• Top posts
  • Beck Tries to Kill Parody Website
  • Civilians Charged With Torture
  • Creationist Opportunism

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RealClimate

http://www.realclimate.org/

Climate science commentary by actual climate scientists...

• Top posts
  • Hey Ya! (mal)
  • Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong
  • A warming pause?

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Respectful Insolence

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence

"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)

• Top posts
  • The anti-vaccine war on science: An epidemic of fear
  • The 2009 recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award (a.k.a Bill Maher): Antivaccine lunatic and quackery supporter
  • Some "inconvenient questions" for Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins tomorrow

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Climate Audit

http://www.climateaudit.org

by Steve McIntyre

• Top posts
  • Yamal: A "Divergence" Problem
  • Gavin's Guru and RCS Standardization
  • Yamal and the Divergence Problem

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Next Generation Science

http://www.NextGenerationScience.com

Following the intersection of science, technology and information.

• Top posts
  • Mendeley [NGS Registry]
  • P212121 - Macromolecular Crystallography [NGS Registry]
  • ALSUntangled: Interview with Richard Bedlack [NGS]

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TierneyLab

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com

Putting Ideas in Science to the Test

• Top posts
  • The Non-Tragedy of the Commons
  • Dr. Holdren's Ice-Age Tidal Wave
  • Martin Gardner's Aha! Moments

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Effect Measure

http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure

Effect Measure is a forum for progressive public health discussion and argument as well as a source of public health information from around the web that interests the Editor(s)

• Top posts
  • Journalists sink in The Atlantic article on vaccines
  • Mandatory swine flu vaccination for health care workers: I change my mind
  • Why I am getting both seasonal and swine flu vaccines and why you should, too

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Gristmill

http://gristmill.grist.org

Grist News Feed

• Top posts
  • Palm oil, healthy rainforests, and your kitchen
  • Top USDA official gets serious about local/regional food systems
  • The economics of 350

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The Frontal Cortex

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex

• Top posts
  • Nature and Compassion
  • Listening to Your Pulse
  • Robert Parker

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BPS Research Digest

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/

Your free, fortnightly roundup of the latest psychology research from the British Psychological Society.

• Top posts
  • One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself
  • Norbert Schwarz: Incidental feelings
  • Robert Cialdini: Taking on too much

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FuturePundit

http://www.futurepundit.com

Future technological trends and their likely effects on human society, politics and evolution.

• Top posts
  • Biofuel Crops Seen Contributing To Global Warming
  • Liver Cells Made From Skin Cells
  • Solar Power Cost Decline Steeper

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Deltoid

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid

Tim Lambert's weblog

• Top posts
  • Why Everything in Superfreakonomics About Global Warming Is Wrong
  • Mcintyre misunderstood somehow. Yet again.
  • Pielke Pity Party

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Uncertain Principles

http://scienceblogs.com/principles

Physics, Politics, Pop Culture

• Top posts
  • Joshua Rosenau Deserves a Medal
  • My Doomsday Weapon
  • Someone in Norway Has a Sick Sense of Humor

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Greg Laden's Blog

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff

• Top posts
  • The Mystery of The Returned Outboard Motor
  • Best worse worst worster in days (Countdown)
  • An Open Letter to Americans Who Are Annoyed at Obama's Nobel Prize

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A Blog Around The Clock

http://scienceblogs.com/clock

• Top posts
  • Open Access Week
  • Tweetlinks, 10-16-09
  • Tweetlinks, 10-02-09

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Living the Scientific Life (Scienti

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -- Eden Phillpotts.

• Top posts
  • A Flowchart to Determine What Religion You Should Follow
  • Scientia Pro Publica 13: Nobel Prize Edition
  • Project Kaisei Scripps Oceanography North Pacific Gyre

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