Hear ye, hear ye -- the 26th edition of The Giant's Shoulders, labeled the "Fools, failures and frauds" special edition, is available for perusal at Neurotic Physiology! In this edition…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Chemistry extravaganza!
"Dr. SkySkull" selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. This week's set of editor's selections is a "chemistry…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Phytoliths, Hubble bubbles, computer-generated hypotheses, and plasma shields
"Dr. SkySkull" selects several notable posts each week from a miscellany of ResearchBlogging.org categories. He blogs at Skulls in the Stars. Past lives caught in the dust of trees. Alun…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: WEIRD science, copycat suicides, square quantum mechanics, nanophobia and Mars’ oceans
Are most experimental subjects in behavioral science WEIRD? "Weird" here is an acronym, but also reflects the idea that the representative samples in behavioral science aren't really that representative of…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: why no wheels?, GADZOOKS!, butterfly faces and gravity’s existence
Why no wheels? At Gambler's House, teofilo endeavors to explain why ancient cultures throughout the Americas didn't make use of the wheel -- even when they understood its principles! Acro-tastic!…
Welcome ThonyC as co-manager of The Giant’s Shoulders!
I've been thinking for a while that I would like to get some additional help and suggestions on how to keep The Giant's Shoulders history of science carnival going and…
The Giant’s Shoulders #25, 2nd anniversary edition, is out!
The Giant's Shoulders #25 is officially out at The Dispersal of Darwin, and it marks the two year anniversary since the first carnival! In honor of it, Michael has put…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: International romance, sluggish T-rex, double rainbows and World Cup excuses
It was, perhaps not surprisingly, a relatively quiet week in research blogging, but there were still lots of great posts! Men, English, and international romance. We begin this week with…
7 days until The Giant’s Shoulders #25!
In spite of all the craziness in the blogosphere right now (or perhaps because of it), this seemed like a good time to remind people that there are 7 days…
ResearchBlogging editor’s selections: Eclipse in the Odyssey, photons still bosons, and soccer GPS
Eclipse in The Odyssey: Science Meets Mythology. It has been long suspected that one passage in Homer's Odyssey describes an actual solar eclipse, but has been mostly speculation. A recent…