3 Quarks Daily Announces Four Annual Blog Prizes: The Quarks!. I read a fair number of posts from science blogs but cannot remember any particular post that I would like to recommend; in any case I do not like prizes. Usually, those who get prizes do not need them and those who hanker for prizes do not deserve them. As Brian Switek says in The dangerous link between science and hype:
"Science proceeds through discovery and debate, and hypotheses do not become accepted by flooding the media with press releases."
(via the excellent blog Gene Expression of Rajib)
There are many excellent blogs, some by professional writers, but there seems to be news of breathtaking discoveries from some fmri scans and/or experiments on a few students and such almost every day both from universities and bloggers. Some like Max Liberman of Language Log and Andrew Gellman(http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/)seem to bring some sobriety to the discussions. However, the particular post in 3qurksdaily may be useful in giving list of some interesting posts on science.
P.S. The list HERE.
2 comments:
Thanks (I guess!) for your somewhat reluctant endorsement! :-) The idea is not to reward good science, but to reward a good blog post about good science, therefore encouraging the communication of interesting science to the public.
Do vote when you have time!
Thanks for viting. I partly intended to bring attention to the excellent 3quarksdaily which I visit everyday if I am not travelling.
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