Bora has asked his readers to help him compile a list of the best science blog posts of 2006. The response was so overwhelming that he has now asked a number of people, including myself, to read through the list of suggestions and give each one a rating. The 50 posts with the highest ratings will be collected in a book to be published by Lulu.com at the end of January. Below is a list of most of the posts that have been suggested so far.
UPDATE (January 4th, 2007): The complete list of suggestions is here.
UPDATE (January 8th, 2007): The 50 posts selected for publication in the book (including this one from me!) are here.
- Who’s duping whom?
- False confessions: Not as rare as you might think
- Floyd Landis and Testosterone Testing
- Selection, nuclear genetic variation, and mtDNA
- Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design
- Science Fair, Or, ‘Isn’t This What Science Is All About?’
- Musical scientists
- The Write Stuff
- Why do Elephants have Big Ear Flaps?
- Unfalsifiable and falsified
- Quantum interrogation
- Micro Black Holes
- The master of its domain
- Lessons From Kennewick: Fitting it all Together
- Sexual Rhythms
- What Good Science Looks Like
- I’m A Professional, Don’t try this at Home
- A Year in Texas: Monarch Migrations
- Blind Watchmaker or Swiss Designer? Part I | Part II
- Campeador Diem
- Humility among scientists
- Abeka’s horrible creationist biology textbook
- Real Clock Tutorial: History
- Once Upon a Time
- Cicatrix
- Water, Water, Everywhere; Not A Drop…..
- Males prefer older females! (??)
- Hummingbirds and Torpor
- The global cooling myth
- Getting The Mooney Treatment
- Mammoths, mastodons, and killer hippos
- Confessions of a Science Librarian
- The Condimentary Preferences of Drosophila
- Opening up the scientific process
- How I learned the difference between farts and boners
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Emergency Department
- Breaking the Forma Aedificii Gatesensis
- The Field-Archaeological Paradox
- Isn’t Anaximander Wonderful?
- Beware the catfish from hell? Not really.
- An Introduction to Information Theory
- Training the Expert Mind Part I | Part II: Medical Diagnosis
- Whatever Happened to the Fisher-Wright controversy?
- Belief in things not seen
- A Guide to Grading Exams
- Prayer still useless
- Introduction to Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Part I | Part II
- Caught in the Line of Fire: Animal Rights Activists Take Over Oxford
- The Egyptian Chariot: Part I | Part II
- Explorers & Crusaders
- Coulter’s Science: Let the Criticism Commence
- A Darwinian history
- Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Part I | Part II
- It’s not just the genes, it’s the links between them
- Blogs and the Future of Science
And to think I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough reading material to see me through the holidays … I’ll still be working my way through this lot on Australia Day.
Happy 2007.
Thanks for assembling this list. What a great resource! There was a huge surge in popular science books in the mid 90′s, but that wave crashed around 2000. Hopefully we’re seeing a resurgence in the form of “pop science” blogs.