November 2, 2011

Best of October at A Blog Around The Clock

By Bora Zivkovic

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American

I posted 32 times in October. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions).

A brand new post:

The Fracking Song

On supporting science journalism

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A couple of new ScienceOnline interviews:

ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Richard Grant

ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kiyomi Deards

A couple of announcements:

Just a few quick updates: NASW, Science(blogging) and more.

ScienceOnline participants’ interviews

Several videos from last year's ScienceOnline conference:

#Scio11 – Making the History of Science [Video]

#scio11 – How is the Web changing the way we identify scientific impact?

#scio11 – Experiments with the Imagination

#scio11 – Open Notebook Science: Pushing Data from Bench to Web Service

#scio11 – Visual Storytelling

#scio11 – What’s Keeping Us from Open Science? Is It the Powers That Be, Or Is It… Us?

#scio11 – The Entertainment Factor

#scio11 – Data Discoverability: Institutional Support Strategies

#scio11 – Science-Art

#scio11 – The Digital Toolbox

#scio11 – Video: From YouTube to TV to Hollywood and Back: Mini Science Film Festival

#scio11 – Having Fun with Citations

#scio11 – How can we maintain high journalism standards on the web?

#scio11 – Web 2.0, Public and Private Spaces in the Scientific Community, and Generational Divides in the Practice of Science

#scio11 – Standing Out: Marketing Yourself in Science

Several re-posts from the old archives:

BIO101 – What Creatures Do: Animal Behavior

What does it mean that a nation is ‘Unscientific’?

BIO101 – Organisms In Time and Space: Ecology

Diversity of insect circadian clocks – the story of the Monarch butterfly

Is education what journalists do?

Cicadas, or how I Am Such A Scientist, or a demonstration of good editing

BIO101 – Origin of Biological Diversity

BIO101 – Evolution of Biological Diversity

BIO101 – Current Biological Diversity

Revenge of the Zombifying Wasp

Are Zombies nocturnal?

Previously in the "Best of..." series:

2011