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2010

ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Maxwell’s demon, hairy crops, poison frogs and a copper conundrumoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2010
In the throes of National Novel Writing Month!original ↗
14 Nov 2010
Weird science facts, October 10-October 23original ↗
10 Nov 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: life in the dark, a galaxy far, far away, jewelry box science, and Cookie Monster social science!original ↗
8 Nov 2010
7 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #29!original ↗
8 Nov 2010
Weird science facts, September 26-October 9original ↗
4 Nov 2010
Brian Switek’s Written in Stoneoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections, post-Halloween edition: Godzilla slime molds, fossil ghost hippos and a Venice vampireoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2010
The Lady of the Lake… a scientific ghost storyoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2010
A visit to Mount Hope Cemeteryoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2010
Weird science facts, September 12-September 25original ↗
28 Oct 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: eye jumping, Mesa Verde water control and Saudi Arabian volcanoesoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2010
Kitty fostering breakthrough!original ↗
22 Oct 2010
Weird science facts, August 29-September 11original ↗
20 Oct 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Aboriginal astronomy, the CO2 climate knob, the pain files, and cannibal Tyrannosaur X2original ↗
19 Oct 2010
Scicurious reports on an overdramatic rattlesnake bite! (1747)original ↗
18 Oct 2010
Benjamin Franklin’s electrical feast! (1748)original ↗
18 Oct 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #28 is out!original ↗
17 Oct 2010
Datlow and Mamatas’ “Haunted Legends”original ↗
16 Oct 2010
Benjamin Franklin shocks the world! (1752)original ↗
15 Oct 2010
Weird science facts, August 15-August 28original ↗
13 Oct 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: the Nobel for graphene, the IgNobel for Peter, and science vs. the Israeli-Palestinian conflictoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2010
Twisting light into a Möbius striporiginal ↗
10 Oct 2010
The Kathleen Folden memorial blog postoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2010
Weird science facts, August 1-August 14original ↗
6 Oct 2010
Returning from Scientopia…original ↗
6 Oct 2010
Kitty fostering: Mango and Mandarin!original ↗
5 Oct 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: cells of ice, heavy metal flowers, white dwarf v. neutron star, and the Ig Nobels!original ↗
4 Oct 2010
Weird science facts, July 18-July 31original ↗
29 Sept 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: WEIRD evolution, pelican’s beak, and rainforest reactorsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2010
Weird science facts, July 04-July 17original ↗
22 Sept 2010
Optics basics: surface plasmonsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: the Peruvian coffee paradox, galactic positioning, going green, the Alpine Fault, and hurricane planktonoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2010
Henry Kuttner’s The Well of the Worldsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #27 is out!original ↗
16 Sept 2010
Weird science facts, June 20-July 03original ↗
15 Sept 2010
Vote for kitty Sasha!original ↗
15 Sept 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: wee beer beasties, war mathematics, guillotines for snow, and nematode bomb sniffersoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2010
Kitty fostering success!original ↗
13 Sept 2010
Whittaker breaks the irony meter (1910/1953)original ↗
11 Sept 2010
R.W. Wood’s lecture demonstrations (1897-1905)original ↗
10 Sept 2010
5 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #27!original ↗
10 Sept 2010
Weird science facts, June 6-June 19original ↗
8 Sept 2010
Making molecular motors (video)original ↗
7 Sept 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: age of the Earth, hacking quantum cryptography, American camels and free kick physicsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2010
Physical Review Letters gives a WARNING!!! (1958)original ↗
2 Sept 2010
Conservation mode/growing painsoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2010
Weird science facts, May 23-June 05original ↗
1 Sept 2010
Kitty fostering: Brewster and Breyer!original ↗
1 Sept 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: measuring gravity, measuring magnetism, antiseptic spices and Goya's bullfightingoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2010
My favorite weird fiction of the past 3 yearsoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2010
Weird science facts, May 9-May 22original ↗
25 Aug 2010
Streets of the optical scientists!original ↗
24 Aug 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: the first Englishman, the last Seismosaurus, the semantic web, hidden ruptures and E.T. lifeoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2010
Alan Hirshfeld's The Electric Life of Michael Faradayoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2010
Weird science facts, April 25-May 8original ↗
18 Aug 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: snails do it anti-chirally, the Tasmanian fish mystery, and an amateur impact hypothesisoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2010
The Giant's Shoulders #26, "Fools, failures and frauds" edition, is out!original ↗
16 Aug 2010
Tolman goes silly for similitude! (1914)original ↗
15 Aug 2010
The Scientist and the Anarchist – Part IIoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2010
Weird science facts, April 11-April 24original ↗
11 Aug 2010
Right-wing refutations of relativity really, really wrong!original ↗
10 Aug 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: Chemistry extravaganza!original ↗
9 Aug 2010
Manly Wade Wellman’s Who Fears the Devil?original ↗
7 Aug 2010
Archives are up!original ↗
6 Aug 2010
Primate Diaries in exile!original ↗
5 Aug 2010
Attack of the giant squid! (1874)original ↗
4 Aug 2010
11 days until the “fools, failures and frauds” edition of The Giant’s Shoulders!original ↗
4 Aug 2010
Weird science facts, March 28 – April 10original ↗
4 Aug 2010
We’ve moved… to Scientopia!original ↗
2 Aug 2010
ResearchBlogging editor's selections: Phytoliths, Hubble bubbles, computer-generated hypotheses, and plasma shieldsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2010
Optics basics: lasers!original ↗
2 Aug 2010
The Discovery Place does optics!original ↗
30 Jul 2010
Weird science facts, March 14-March 27original ↗
29 Jul 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: WEIRD science, copycat suicides, square quantum mechanics, nanophobia and Mars’ oceansoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2010
5-way formation skydive!original ↗
26 Jul 2010
Release the kraken! (1790)original ↗
25 Jul 2010
Cerenkov sees the light (1937)original ↗
22 Jul 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: why no wheels?, GADZOOKS!, butterfly faces and gravity’s existenceoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2010
Skullsinthestars featured in the local paper!original ↗
19 Jul 2010
Welcome ThonyC as co-manager of The Giant’s Shoulders!original ↗
17 Jul 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #25, 2nd anniversary edition, is out!original ↗
16 Jul 2010
Marie Corelli’s Vendettaoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2010
Freaks & geeks: optical freak waves in the laboratoryoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: International romance, sluggish T-rex, double rainbows and World Cup excusesoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2010
A. Merritt’s The Ship of Ishtaroriginal ↗
11 Jul 2010
7 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #25!original ↗
8 Jul 2010
The sciencebloggosphere is a changing! (updated)original ↗
7 Jul 2010
Is there anybody… out there?original ↗
6 Jul 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Eclipse in the Odyssey, photons still bosons, and soccer GPSoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2010
Hummingbirds are back!original ↗
3 Jul 2010
Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon (Valancourt edition)original ↗
2 Jul 2010
Invisibility physics: Kerker’s “invisible bodies”original ↗
2 Jul 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Soothing troubled waters, zombie stars, risky business with oil, visual recognition, and time and poweroriginal ↗
28 Jun 2010
Swimming (well, kneeling) with stingrays!original ↗
27 Jun 2010
“On the decline of mathematical studies, and the sciences dependent upon them”original ↗
21 Jun 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Grandpa vs. the oil, inadvertent cloud-seeding, faith and science, and hip-hop evolutionoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2010
A mini milestone…original ↗
17 Jun 2010
A visit to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoooriginal ↗
16 Jun 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #24 is up!original ↗
16 Jun 2010
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