I was in the jury for Open Lab this year too, and the finalists are up. These are supposed to be the best of science blogging for 2010, so these are elected good read and you may have good time spent over the links… Here is the list:
- Givin’ props to hybrids by DeLene Beeland
- The decade the clones came: Beware the mighty Marmokrebs! by Zen Faulkes
- Can seabirds overfish a resource? The case of cormorants in Estonia by Hannah Waters
- The Data Speak by Andrew Thaler
- Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis by Darren Naish
- Shark week! by EcoPhysioMichelle
- Size really does matter! Well endowed male earwigs have their cake and eat it too… by Carin Bondar
- Comparative medicine: what is a wallaby? by The Dog Zombie
- But did you correct your results using a dead salmon? by Iddo Friedberg
- J.B.S. Haldane and the case of the revivified head by Jeremy Yoder
- The First Trilobite by John McKay
- Neuronistas vs. Reticularistas by Namnezia
- How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis by Captain Skellett
- Smells From the Past: The Fulton Fish Market by Krystal D’Costa
- Oliver Sacks on Vision, His Next Book, and Surviving Cancer by Steve Silberman
- Sacrifice on the Serengeti by Eric Michael Johnson
- Man’s new best friend? A forgotten Russian experiment in fox domestication by Jason Goldman
- The antidepressant reboxetine: A “headdesk” moment in science by Scicurious
- When a deaf man has Tourette’s by Emily Anthes
- Why Johnny Can’t Name His Colors by Melody Dye
- Neurocriminology in prohibition-era New York by Mo Costandi
- The Tight Collar: The New Science of Choking Under Pressure by David Dobbs
- Laughing rats and ticklish gorillas: Joy and mirth in humans and other animals by Jesse Bering
- Rump-Shaking Red-Eyed Treefrogs by Kelsey Abbott
- Gut bacteria in Japanese people borrowed sushi-digesting genes from ocean bacteria by Ed Yong
- Skull Caps and Genomes by Carl Zimmer
- Giraffes – Necks for food or necks for sex? by Brian Switek
- The Ape That Wouldn’t Grow Up by Anna Barros
- Divide and Diminish by Olivia Judson
- Living fossils don’t exist… by Lucas Brouwers
- It’s more than genes, it’s networks and systems by PZ Myers
- Science Is More Like Sumo Than Soccer by Chad Orzel
- Ecosystems In the Age of Cassandra by Kristen L. Marhaver
- Knowledge is Power by Christina Agapakis
- My IVF story: pregnancy and My IVF story: conclusions , combined into a single essay, by Kate Clancy
- Dancing with a Giant by Alistair Dove
- I have discovered Jupiter by Stephen Curry
- When do you move from living to dying? by Pal MD
- The Black History Month Post I never wanted to write by DN Lee
- Ten Things You Don’t Know About Comets by Phil Plait
- Poison in the Night by Deborah Blum
- Invisibility physics: Kerker’s ‘invisible bodies’ by Dr. Skyskull
- There is something out there — part 1 and There is something out there — part 2, combined into a single essay, by Mike Browns
- A tale of death, derring-do and barometers by Vivianne Raper
- Rapid canyon formation and uniformitarianism by Brian Romans
- Frickin’ Laser Beams: Fact vs Fiction from The Martian Chronicles
- Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill – Conversations With My Grandpa by Christie Wilcox
- Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains. and Dispersants! Part II: Toxicity and Dispersants! Part III: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil? , combined into a single essay, by Holly Bik
- Oiling The Devil’s Darning Needle by Meera of the Science Essayist
- Pouring Oil on ‘Troubled Waters’ by Kevin Zelnio
- Tiny Oceans (poem) by Andrew Thaler
- Manipulations (poem) by Elissa Malcohn
- World View (cartoon) by Abstruse Goose
- Black Tide is Rising (poem) by Kevin Zelnio
- A Scientific Valentine (poem) by Digital Cuttlefish
- To A Rat, On Looking Back On Her Career, In The Lab (poem) by Digital Cuttlefish
- In Development (poem) by Elissa Malcohn
Actually, I hadn’t to review posts from people I know (well, this is a slight lie, in fact I reviewed two submissions from blogs listed in the blogroll, and I gave positive reviews –not because I like the people, really because these were good contributions to the blogosphere). Since there were 6 evaluations for each of the submissions that made it to the second round, I guess it’s been averaged over the reviews. Some I didn’t really like made it eventually, and two I found brilliant aren’t selected, so I may post soon about these 2 specifics and comment upon…
Before that, have a good read if not already done… :-)
So many good and interesting posts – I’m excited to see the ones you liked that didn’t make the cut.