Janet has tagged us with an irrational meme. Below the fold are 3.14159265 things about me.
3 reasons you blog about science:
- To practice writing.
- To organize my thoughts and force myself to follow the current literature.
- There are worse ways for me to waste my time.
Point at which you would stop blogging:
- When it becomes detrimental to my academic career.
1 thing you frequently blog besides science:
4 words that describe your blogging style:
- Ill-informed.
- Obnoxious.
- Immature.
- Distracted.
1 aspect of blogging you find difficult:
- Reading the articles and entries I link to.
5 ScienceBlogs blogs that are new to you:
- Chaotic Utopia
- Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge
- Dynamics of Cats
- Effect Measure
- The Island of Doubt
(That's just the first five alphabetically. There are many more that are also new to me.)
9 blogs you read outside the ScienceBlogs universe:
- hpb, etc.
- John Hawks
- The Lancelet
- The Panda's Thumb
- Bad Astronomy
- BioCurious
- FrinkTank
- Tenderbutton
- Red State Rabble
2 important features of your blogging environment:
- Computer.
- Internet connection.
6 items you would bring to a meet-up with the other ScienceBloggers:
- My laptop.
- My ideas.
- My
Sharonaopinion. - My ego.
- My camera.
- Beer money.
5 conversations you would have before the end of that meet-up:
- With PZ Myers about evo-devo.
- With Razib about population genetics.
- With Dave and Ben about writing.
- With John Wilkins about speciation.
- With everyone defending science in public schools.
- Log in to post comments
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Point at which you would stop blogging:
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