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Open Lab 2008

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The new Open Lab 2008 is here!

This book is a collection of 52 essays representing some of the best science blog writing from 2008. It includes essays from a lot of the usual suspects, plus others I bet you don’t know. My own post about WR 104, a potential nearby gamma-ray burst progenitor, is in there too.

Open Lab 2008 is on sale at Lulu.com for $15.50, or you can download a PDF for $7.50.

I have both Open Labs 2006 and 2007, and they are wonderful book full of good science, skepticism, anti-antiscience, and just plain old good stuff. I really recommend getting a copy. My congrats to Bora, Jennifer Rohn, and everyone else who worked so hard on this.

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March 5th, 2009 10:00 AM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Debunking, Science, Skepticism | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Open Lab 2008”

  1. 1.   IVAN3MAN Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 10:48 am

    It would not be worth buying if it did not have at least one post by you, Phil, in it!

  2. 2.   Todd W. Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    @IVAN3MAN

    Umm…you have a little something on your nose…just there…

  3. 3.   thingsbreak Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    The new Open Lab 2009 is here!

    Great. Phil’s broken spacetime. Again.

  4. 4.   fos Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Lulu is an excellent publisher. I have purchased academic books from them at a fraction of the price they would have cost from a major publishing house. Their quality is excellent.

  5. 5.   kuhnigget Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    @ fos:

    Yes, indeed. And Lulu’s fictional selections are most excellent, too. Most excellent.

    Worth checking out, definitely.

    Very definitely.

    Uh-yup.

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