The esteemed Tom Levenson, author of the newly released (and well-reviewed) book Newton and the Counterfeiter — and director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at my alma mater, MIT — has kindly featured my blogs on his with some warm words for yours truly. Thanks for the shout-out, Tom!
I’ll be adding his blog to my blogroll as well, along with a few other new blogs I’ve discovered. I’m trying to keep my blogroll useful for readers of this site by making nearly all of them related to particular groups of organisms. Today I’m adding Skeptic Wonder, a blog about protists (protists being skpetical as well as artful, obviously : ) ), The Echinoblog, which is a great resource for they of the hydrostatic skeletons, virology blog (with domain name inexplicably ending in .ws, the extension for . . . Samoa?), The Other 95%, which seems to be loosely about invertebrates and particularly marine invertebrates, and a plant blog from University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, Etaerio Botany Photo of the Day. There is a Grand Canyon-sized blogging gap in the subject of botany and plant taxonomy(please readers, correct me if I’m wrong) — bloggers who are looking for a niche take heed!
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Hi Jennifer,
Thank you for the mention! =D
The title actually comes from a chapter in Carl Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World: “The marriage of skepticism and wonder”. I think it describes so aptly what’s so amazing about the scientific worldview…
I have a slime mould ‘fetish’ too; it’s fun to run around taking pictures of them in the fall, when they seem to pop up all over the place!
Cheers,
-Psi-
You are welcome! “Demon Haunted World” is one of my favorites too. Like the motto of the Skepticamp I went to this year, I’m trying to “Be the Candle in the Dark”. Glad you are too! : )
And who can ever get enough of slimes . . . they are just too awesome. I’m going to be helping the Rocky Mountain National Park volunteer collector in August. We don’t get them in the west as much as we did back east where it’s wetter, but they’re definitely still out here . . . we even have our own unique “snowbank fauna”, just like with plants and mushrooms.