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2010

Joe Hill’s Hornsoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: primate risk-assessment, not-quite-life on Titan, and 65-year-old precursor to the Weboriginal ↗
14 Jun 2010
You could learn a lot from a ducky: the van Cittert-Zernike theoremoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: a serendipitous lion hunt, Iceland’s volcano preparedness, tabletop relativity, and doggie dimensionsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2010
9 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #24!original ↗
7 Jun 2010
Into the doggie Abyss…original ↗
4 Jun 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: prestigious chimps, eye color domination, and synthesising Soufflesoriginal ↗
31 May 2010
Ramsey Campbell’s Creatures of the Pooloriginal ↗
29 May 2010
Infinite series are weird — redux!original ↗
25 May 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: scale in oceanography, majestic Megatherium, strange atlatls and virtual slapsoriginal ↗
24 May 2010
Sabrina at rest!original ↗
20 May 2010
Jeff VanderMeer’s Finchoriginal ↗
19 May 2010
The Giant’s… ahem… Leviathan’s Shoulders #23 is up!original ↗
18 May 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Antikythera, sports fan anthropology, bad oil theories, and false memoriesoriginal ↗
17 May 2010
Shocking: Michael Faraday does biology! (1839)original ↗
16 May 2010
5 days until The Leviathan’s Shoulders!original ↗
10 May 2010
A trip to Savannah, Georgiaoriginal ↗
10 May 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: bilingual animals, horse-hunting hyenas, the nature of dark matter and toiletologyoriginal ↗
10 May 2010
The Shadowy Thing, by H.B. Drakeoriginal ↗
7 May 2010
Singular Optics: Light chasing its own tailoriginal ↗
5 May 2010
12 days until The Leviathan’s Shoulders #23!original ↗
3 May 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Digital distractions, echos from a black hole, and peer-to-peer storageoriginal ↗
3 May 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: fair chimps, cataclysmic variables, and marine sharpshootersoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2010
Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering on Amazon!original ↗
26 Apr 2010
Richard Matheson’s Shadow on the Sunoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: bulletproof T-shirts, spinning light, beauty for birds, and flocking folksoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2010
Mythbustin’: 1808 edition (the incombustible man)original ↗
18 Apr 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #22 is up!original ↗
16 Apr 2010
One day left to submit “grand challenge” ideas to the White House!original ↗
14 Apr 2010
Michelson and the President (1869)original ↗
13 Apr 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Leopards v. primates, “theories”, dark secrets of stars, and corals and climate changeoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2010
Some happeningsoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2010
Robert E. Howard’s El Borakoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2010
Wave interference: where does the energy go?original ↗
7 Apr 2010
10 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #22!original ↗
5 Apr 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Ocean conveyors, UV paleontology, science and “truth”, and scientific misconductoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2010
Michelson and Margariteoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: molding stem cells, lightning, dogs at play, and a heritage of honeyoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2010
Some more women in science, and their appreciatorsoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2010
Graham Masterton’s Blind Panicoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2010
Women published in the Royal Society, 1890-1930original ↗
24 Mar 2010
Pwned by a historian of science!original ↗
23 Mar 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: the Irish-Caribbean, Earth’s early years, wound-healing and nest-building, and large quantum objectsoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2010
My talk on “Forgotten milestones in the history of optics”original ↗
18 Mar 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #21 is up!original ↗
17 Mar 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: corporate water abuse, vanishing audiophiles, artificial coffee smelling and 60k-year-old canteensoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2010
Jeff Rice’s The Kolchak Papersoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2010
A new optics blog: Internal Reflectionsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2010
Perpetual motion — nonsense for over 100 yearsoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2010
7 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #21!original ↗
8 Mar 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: chimps with tools, moon-bases, shrinky dink science, and earthquake predictionsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2010
The oldest LOLcat?original ↗
7 Mar 2010
ResearchBlogging Awards voting open!original ↗
6 Mar 2010
Rolling out the (optical) carpet: the Talbot effectoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: archaeoacoustics, baboon friendships, and the teapot effectoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2010
Research Blog of the Year finalist!original ↗
26 Feb 2010
A WTF scientific paper from Edinburgh, 1884original ↗
25 Feb 2010
“The Wicker Tree?” (Updated)original ↗
23 Feb 2010
“Supernatural Buchan”, by John Buchanoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2010
Tensor? Tensor? I’ve been getting tenser all week!original ↗
23 Feb 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: giving climate scientists their due, “revolting” statistics, and a crystal controversyoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #20original ↗
17 Feb 2010
A little delay…original ↗
16 Feb 2010
What is science? Answers to a high school studentoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2010
Some thoughts on the recent tenure-related shootingoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: slime mold traffic planners, synthetic marijuana, and evolution vs. moralityoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2010
Captain America has a tradition of social commentaryoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2010
Vrije Universiteit goes for Open Access publishing!original ↗
12 Feb 2010
Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts, by W.H. Pugmireoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2010
Announcing: Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering!original ↗
10 Feb 2010
Earthquake hits Chicago area!original ↗
10 Feb 2010
I’ll stick with my parachute, thanksoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: demoting gravity, dinosaur colors, flexible water, and girls v. boysoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2010
Mythbusters were scooped — by 130 years! (Archimedes death ray)original ↗
7 Feb 2010
Now on Twitter!original ↗
4 Feb 2010
12 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #20!original ↗
4 Feb 2010
Which Winston Churchill wrote “Man Overboard!”?original ↗
3 Feb 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral, running wrong, un-natural disasters and ugly avatarsoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2010
To describe, or not to describe…original ↗
29 Jan 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Noble savages, dark materials, and artistic scienceoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2010
Visiting San Francisco!original ↗
24 Jan 2010
Richard Marsh’s A Spoiler of Menoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2010
Scienceblogging-related news!original ↗
20 Jan 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Prehistoric ballistics, prehistoric food delivery, a big boom and chemophobiaoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2010
Slender loris at the Duke Lemur Centeroriginal ↗
18 Jan 2010
Back from ScienceOnline 2010!original ↗
17 Jan 2010
The Giant’s Shoulders #19 is up!original ↗
16 Jan 2010
Off to ScienceOnline 2010!original ↗
14 Jan 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Volcanoes and evolution, fine-grained space, and Earth’s CO2 sensitivityoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2010
Mythbusters were scooped — by 130 years! (Finger in the barrel)original ↗
10 Jan 2010
Mini-interview in Seed Magazine!original ↗
6 Jan 2010
10 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #19!original ↗
5 Jan 2010
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: exporting language, speaking with your mind, reversing streams, and money vs. happinessoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2010

2009

Lord Kelvin vs. the Aether! (1901)original ↗
29 Dec 2009
Kepler’s contributions to optics, at Renaissance Mathematicusoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2009
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: technology vs. prejudice, the history of grain-eating, and curing PTSD via virtual realityoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2009
A new paper airplane world record!original ↗
28 Dec 2009
Merry Christmasoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2009
M.P. Shiel’s Prince Zaleskioriginal ↗
23 Dec 2009
Another kitty anchors herself in our home!original ↗
21 Dec 2009
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