In the shortest turnaround time for a book ever, Bora “coturnix” Zivkovic (of Blog Around the Clock fame) has put together The Open Laboratory, a collection of the greatest science blogging of all time. Which is a little bit less impressive than it sounds, since science blogging hasn’t been around for that many centuries. Still, it’s a fun concept, to take all of those words on the internet and bind them between covers. I’ll admit that I nominated my own quantum puppies post, in the tradition of all great media shamelessness.
For those of you not quite willing to pay for what you find for free by pointing and clicking, you can peruse all 50 of the selected posts, or the complete list of nominees, without ever leaving your computer. For those of you who are willing, here you go.
I find this offensive. The author charging money for assembling a collection of free blog comments. Hopefully sales (or lack thereof) will reflect my attitude.
Elliot
http://char1y.blogspot.com Charly
can they give us student discount?
http://char1y.blogspot.com Charly
apparently, the word ‘discount’ gets your spam filter more excited than Dick Cheney with a shotgun in a room full of democrats.
Analyzer
The only thing worse than a song about music is a blog post about blogging.
Elliot
“I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony….”
Elliot
Dan R.
All the author’s gave permission, and the proceeds are going to support The North Carolina Science Blogging Conference.
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Random samplings from a universe of ideas.
About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .
In the shortest turnaround time for a book ever, Bora “coturnix” Zivkovic (of Blog Around the Clock fame) has put together The Open Laboratory, a collection of the greatest science blogging of all time. Which is a little bit less impressive than it sounds, since science blogging hasn’t been around for that many centuries. Still, it’s a fun concept, to take all of those words on the internet and bind them between covers. I’ll admit that I nominated my own quantum puppies post, in the tradition of all great media shamelessness.
