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Gleanings from the blogosphere

October 20, 2009

A few neat gleanings from my favorite blogs: Over at Schooner of Science — Smelling the Moon. A fictional pregnant woman swears she can smell moonbeams.  Do pregnant women really smell things more strongly? What’s really cool is that the women THINK they smell better now they are pregnant, but there’s not the evidence there [...]

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New blog! The ARTFUL AMOEBA tells us about moss that swings both (all?) ways

May 30, 2009

My friend and fellow science writer Jen Frazer has started a new blog (well, two actually, but let’s start with the first). I don’t know how she can spend a whole day at work writing copy, and then come home and spin out gorgeous and witty prose, but, hey, she didn’t win the AAAS Science [...]

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Blogs are rolling all over us

October 2, 2008

Here’s some link love for the last few weeks… Ms. Ouellette has a delightfully morbid post about preserving corpses (including those from the Body World exhibit) over at Cocktail Party Physics. If you’ve got a morbid streak (like I do), here’s also my little post about the science of death (which, not surprisingly, refers to [...]

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Science blogs by women!

September 24, 2008

Sciencewomen just posted a fabulously detailed blogroll of all the women blogging on science topics. A great resource.  I wonder how the proportion of women blogging about science compares to the proportion of women employed in the sciences?  There certainly seem to b a decent number of us blogging about physics, considering the dismal number [...]

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Blogroll for August 22

August 22, 2008

OK, ok, I’ll start a blogroll. It seems to be the happenin’ thing to do, and I do read so many great articles on other blogs and want to acknowledge them in some way! So here’s Steph’s geekgirl picks for the last handful of weeks: Cocktail Party Physics – Pretty Poison — on how men [...]

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