Recommended Science/Tech blogs

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We all know plenty of music and politickin' blogs, so what are you fave science/tech bloggerers?

I'll offer up P.Z. Myers's Pharyngula, which covers biology & evolution, with a bit of leftie politickin' thrown in(as those subjects have become increasingly politicized)

What/who do you read on a regular basis?

kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Effect Measure for public health and bird flu info.

Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

The Space Review for space commentary
Universe Today for more astronomy/space news
Defense Tech for military-industrial complex tech
Future Feeder - sort of a intersection point of science, design, & architecture (been reading a lot of architecture/design/urban planning blogs lately)
Seed Magazine blog - general science magazine - they also have a podcast
The Nature Podcast - podcast from Nature Magazine

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Schneier for the latest ways in which the entire world is totally stupid about security
sunbelt blog for the latest ukrainian keylogger news

TOMBOT, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

The only one I read regularly is SciTech Daily, a sister site to Arts & Letters Daily:

http://www.scitechdaily.com/

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm a theoretical physicist, so there's a skew in my blog reading:

Peter Woit (anti string theory)
Jacques Distler (pro string theory plus HTML/XML/markup wonk)
Andrew Jaffe (astrophysics and bloggy rubbish)
P. P. Cook (mathematical physics)
Cosmic Variance (string theorists and general relativity people)

Peter Woit has the highest signal-to-noise ration, but also has an agenda (with which I happen to agree). Jacques Distler is also good.

The rest have a little too much politics at the level typical of blogs (i.e. shrill idiocy) or mindless propogation of the same links.

3quarksdaily has lots of pop science in amongst reasonably high brow arts and politics. The posting rate got too high for my tastes (they could do with a best of page/feed), so I have unsubscribed, but it is otherwise excellent.

Mike W (caek), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

3quarksdaily is great.

Some good tech blogs:

http://www.ajaxian.com/
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/
http://www.genuinevc.com/
http://battellemedia.com/
http://www.traffick.com/

lyra (lyra), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
I'm tryina work getting more podcasts off here and convince them they are worth expense

http://www.sciencemag.org/about/podcast.dtl

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

thanks paulhw, I can't believe I'd never heard of that one.

Dan I., Friday, 10 February 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I linked to an article from this blog on another thread:

http://loom.corante.com/

It's a very entertaining site by science journalist Carl Zimmer (though the formatting seems to have gone goofy recently). Lots of stuff about evolution and parasites, among other topics.

Nemo (JND), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Author of the Very Short Introduction to Maths has a blog: http://gowers.wordpress.com/. Disco.

By the way, if you've read pop sci but have never really got what pure maths (rather than physics) is about, I cannot recommend his Very Short Introduction enough. I'm a theoretical physicist and I didn't get what mathematicians got up to until I read his book. Which is not to say you need to be a theoretical physicist to get it -- it's a very simple, bright, short book. AAA++++ would read again.

caek, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

as far as science reporting, i like seed magazine's site
also this sci blogs combined feed - http://www.scienceblogs.com/

rrrobyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

I like ecogeek

Ed, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Anyone have some new recommendations? It seems like the ones I was still reading are only talking about Copenhagen, James Randi, and atheism.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 December 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

http://nextbigfuture.com/
"Tracking high impact progress to the technology future, future technology and especially advanced nanotechnology, nuclear and energy technology, quantum computers, life extension, space technology and AI. Proposing and tracking the best societal, business and technical choices to the next big things that will shape our future."

i think it's allright but i don't read on regular basis .

Sébastien, Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

new scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

damnit it's leading with copenhagen right now :)

poster x (ledge), Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

That gower's link from two years ago is cool.

ledge, why you no come to styptic xword thread anymore?

alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

um, gowers's

alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://carlzimmer.com/imgs/Carl_Zimmer_S8I0005.png

Since when did J0hn D. start wearing glasses and writing science?

nomar little (Leee), Friday, 14 January 2011 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ed Yong/Not Exactly Rocket Science is pretty grebe.

Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

The zoology posts are usually terrific, though he does other sciency stuff too.

Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Thursday, 3 February 2011 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Lots of very interesting responses here:

http://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement

o. nate, Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:38 (twelve years ago)


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