The first of its kind, phenomenal, unbelievable collection of the best science blogging in history has just been published!
Timed to coincide with the first Science Blogging Conference, this anthology of best 50 blog posts from science and medical blogs is now available for sale. You can find all the information about the book, including the blog-typical democratic process of choosing 50 best posts of all time, at this URL.
You can check out all 218 finalists here and the Final 50 here.
The anthology was published by Lulu.com.You can buy the book here. The collection contains the following blog posts:
Science Fare (Bad Astronomer)
Eyes, Part One: Opening Up the Russian Doll and Eyes, Part Two: Fleas, Fish, and the Careful Art of Deconstruction (The Loom)
A Year in Texas: Monarch Migrations (Sarkar Lab)
Cicatrix (The Examining Room of Dr. Charles)
Answering Dean Esmay on ID in Science Classrooms (Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
It's not just the genes, it's the links between them (Pharyngula)
Campeador Diem (DarkSyde - DailyKos)
False confessions: Not as rare as you might think (Cognitive Daily)
Humility among scientists (Terra Sigillata)
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) (A Blog Around The Clock)
An object lesson in Wiki research (Archy)
Lessons From Kennewick: Fitting it all Together (Afarensis)
Micro Black Holes (Backreaction)
Who's duping whom? (Adventures in Ethics and Science)
The global cooling myth (Real Climate)
Hummingbirds and Torpor (Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted))
What the (Bleep) Were They Thinking? (Skeptico)
Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, part I and Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, part II (Respectful Insolence)
Quantum interrogation (Cosmic Variance)
Public health, defense, what will really make us safer (Aetiology)
I'm A Professional, Don't try this at Home (Olduvai George)
BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University and NASA Science Censor Resigns (The Scientific Activist)
Physics Funding Fundamentalism (Uncertain Principles)
Blind Watchmaker or Swiss Designer? (Part I) and Blind Watchmaker or Swiss Designer? (Part II) (Newton's Binomium)
Isn't Anaximander Wonderful? (Archaeoastronomy)
'Big Bang' is a terrible name for a great theory (Galactic Interactions)
The scientist as mad artist - an example using DNA for musical composition (The World's Fair)
All Together Now: 'Penis' (Intueri)
The little farter (Bootstrap Analysis)
The Worst Parts of Scientific Life and The Best Parts of the Scientific Life (The Daily Transcript)
Why You Weigh So Much: Dynamical Breaking of Chiral Symmetry (Scientia et Potentia)
Hurray for being eaten by a bear! (Thoughts from Kansas)
The discovery of the neuron (The Neurophilosopher's weblog)
Zero (Good Math, Bad Math)
Whitebark pine/corvid coevolution and paleoecology (Creek Running North)
The Write Stuff (Cocktail Party Physics)
Floyd Landis and Testosterone Testing: All the Background You Want and Need (updated X 7) (Pure Pedantry)
Opening up the scientific process (Public Rambling)
Snail shells are made of this (Snail's Tales)
Why do Elephants have Big Ear Flaps? (Nonoscience)
Darwin, Marx and Bad Scholarship (Stranger Fruit)
The Field-Archaeological Paradox (Salto sobrius)
Sexual Rhythms (Physics of Sex)
Training the Expert Mind and Training the Expert Mind, Part II: Medical Diagnosis (Corpus Callosum)
Ticks and Time (Science Made Cool (Zygote Games))
The Demarcation Problem... again (Evolving Thoughts)
When it comes to brains, does size really matter? (Neurontic)
Selection, nuclear genetic variation, and mtDNA (John Hawks' Anthropology Blog)
Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design (Panda's Thumb)
Bipolar Disorder: A View From the Inside (Chaotic Utopia)