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Latest BlogScholars - Sep 2008 |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
It is always a pleasure to review all the submissions that come into
the BlogScholar academic blog directory. Even some of the spam can be
entertaining - submitted to linguistics category "... the lingeree blog
teaches you how to use creative linguistics to peel back the layers of
your girlfriend's lingeree" or submitted to life sciences "... the
science of life is really all about people, and people are all about
sex, so read more about sex on our blog and improve your life sciences".
What is particularly startling about the last one is that someone with
a pornographic sex blog would imagine that submitting it to the life
sciences category in the BlogScholar academic blogs directory would
actually improve the traffic. Last time I checked SEX was just barely
outstripping LIFE SCIENCE in online search terms but as we all know the
Internetwork moves so fast ...
But on a more serious note there have been some really good
Blogscholars submitted lately so I thought I would take a moment to
draw attention to a few.
- Eight Minutes Old
notes as many sightings as he can find of pareidolia, false images our
brains make up from patterns that have nothing to do with them. Jesus
and the Virgin Mary abound.
- Female Science Professor writes that ... "I still feel like I don't understand why, given the number of science
blogs in existence, some people think that this particular blog should
have more scientific content. Does it mean this blog is less rigorous?
- Dracula vs Eisenstein
brings attention to an idea we all should have thought of long ago -
paint a picture of something you want to buy, sell the painting for the
cash you need to buy the real item you painted.
- Some students might contend that every academic blog could go by the title "Cranky Professor" but if they were all as good as this one and this one it might not be such a bad idea.
- And finally Everyday Science tries to pinpoint Michael Phelps' movements in the pool to the nano-degree and Daniel Craig learns the guitar
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