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Welcome back! The long holiday weekend is behind us and we're ready to tackle a new year.
I dug through our traffic statistics and put together a list of the Most Popular #SciAmBlogs Posts of 2011.
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While some bloggers were finishing their 2011 year-end reminiscences, other moved ahead, and already wrote cool new science posts:
- Kelly Oakes - Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline
- Christina Agapakis - The Essence of Taste
- Cassie Rodenberg - A drug year in review, 2011and5 alcohol-isms for New Year’s
- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Cassie Rodenberg
- Scicurious - Walking or running efficiently, your locomotor muscles might not agree
- Rob Dunn - Your Appendix Could Save Your Life
- Michelle Clement - Video: The science of champagneandMemorable links from the second half of 2011
- Anna Kuchment - Building A (Real) Bridge to 2012
- Darren Naish - In case you forget, softshell turtles are insanely weird
- David Bressan - Accretionary Wedge #41: Memorable Geologic Event That You’ve Directly ExperiencedandHow to celebrate New Year’s Eve in style: Fun in a Fossil
- Jennifer Frazer - Nothing Here But a Hole in the Ocean . . .
- Katherine Harmon - Post-Conflict Libya and Iraq Should Now Wage War on Diabetes and Heart Disease
- Christie Wilcox - 2012 Resolution: The Girl That I Intend To Be
- S.E. Gould - Best Of Lab Rat 2011
- Princess Ojiaku - Singing Auld Lang Syne: SwM 2011 in review
- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: A Year in Animal PhotosandHappy New Year!
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