Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Science Bloggers on Basic Science Concepts

I've noted this before, but the list has grown, and at the rate I blog it is way down this month's archive. Here are the posts that science bloggers have done in their recent drive to post on basic concepts in their fields:

Clade at "Evolving Thoughts"
Evolution at "Sandwalk"
Mean, Median, and Mode at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Normal Distributions at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Force at "Uncertain Principles"
Gene at "Pharyngula"
Standard Deviation at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Fitness at "Evolving Thoughts"
Fields at "Uncertain Principles"
The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at "Sandwalk"
Margin of Error at "Good Math, Bad Math"
How do you sequence a genome? at "Discovering Biology in a Digital World"
The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection at "Greg Laden"
The Modes of Natural Selection at "Greg Laden"
Natural Numbers and Integers at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Recursion and Induction at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Numbers at "Evolutionblog"
Infinity and Infinite Sums at "Evolutionblog"
Species at "Evolving Thoughts"
Linkage Disequilibrium at "Gene Expression"
Correlation at "Good Math, Bad Math"
Introduction to Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at "Aetiology"
8th Grade Math at "Gene Expression"
What is a gene? at "Greg Laden"
Logic at "Good Math, Bad Math"
How do you sequence a genome, part II at "Discovering Biology in a Digital World"
Biological Clock at "A Blog Around the Clock"
Prologue to Dating Techniques at "Afarensis"
Anisogamy at "Behavioral Ecology Blog"
How do you sequence a genome, Part III at "Discovering Biology in a Digital World"
Gene at "Sandwalk"

As I noted before, this is a very hard thing to do, much harder than we normally might be inclined to think; so everyone above is to be congratulated on their promising attempts. I'll continue adding to the list as I become aware of new posts.

Also, don't forget Bora's anthology. This is definitely a good thing to support.