Apparently this is some newfangled technology by which pajamas-wearing loners can share their deep thoughts with strangers. New examples keep appearing, as if the existing blogs don’t already say more or less everything worth saying. Here is a long-overdue blogroll update, conveniently sorted into categories:
Physics-y Blogs
- Twisted Physics
- Science After Sunclipse
- Swans On Tea
- Built On Facts
- The Gauge Connection
- High Energy Mayhem
- I Am the Kitty
- NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena
- symmetry breaking
- The e-Astronomer
- The First Excited State
- Fine Structure
- Quantum Moxie
- Talk Like a Physicist
- When in Doubt, Do
- The Mind of Dr. Pion
- Sciencegeekgirl
- Today in Particle Astrophysics
- Soul Physics
- Susskind’s Blog
Yes, Leonard Susskind has a blog. No, he doesn’t update it. But he was answering questions in comments there for a while.
Blogs Not … Physics. Some Not Even Blogs.
- Ross Douthat
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
- Anthony Bourdain
- Chronicle Blogs: Footnoted
- Marc Ambinder
- Girl Genius
- Ben Rosen
- Dinosaur Comics
- Overcoming Bias
- PostBourgie
- Abstruse Goose
- Radosh.net
- Sociological Images
- The Edge of the American West
- Tom The Dancing Bug
- Economist: Democracy in America
- xkcd
- Strange Maps
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Bad Plus
- Gilbert Arenas
- Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science
- Skeptobot
No, I don’t read all of these blogs, not to mention all of the others on the blogroll; it’s more fun to rotate through different ones occasionally. And it’s absolutely crucial to use a newsreader, either Bloglines or Google Reader (or whatever). Infinitely easier. In the future, sleazy guys in bars will be asking not for your number, but for your RSS feed.
Nevertheless, there remain people out there who pine for the days of paper cuts and text you can underline. Female Science Professor has noted this proclivity, and turned some of her greatest blog hits into a book. Maybe we should do that someday?
And remember, if you have a blog that you would like to see on our blogroll, just let us know. We’ll forward the suggestion to our crack team of blog critics and reviewers, who will subject the blog to a rigorous screening program, after which we will forget about it for six months and perhaps update the blogroll.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Self Promotion
http://letterstonature.wordpress.com/
August 18th, 2008 at 1:58 am
ERV would be a nice science-y but non-physics-y blog to see in the blogroll. (And I wonder if my own Stochastic Scribbles is good enough for inclusion?)
August 18th, 2008 at 2:08 am
“We’ll forward the suggestion to our crack team of blog critics and reviewers, who will subject the blog to a rigorous screening program, after which we will forget about it for six months”
Peer review in the blogosphere?
August 18th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Do you think Susskind was scared off his own blog by commenter “wavemein”?
August 18th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Wherein I derive the recipe for triple chocolate cake from general relativity.
http://theperfectsilence.com
August 18th, 2008 at 7:43 am
That’s a very useful list, I was unaware of most of them. May I suggest that interactions.org have a useful daily list. Also my own humble effort on introductory cosmology is at http://coraifeataigh.wordpress.com
August 18th, 2008 at 9:43 am
More self promotion:
http://dotphys.net
sorry
August 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Nice list. (Now I’m never going to find time to get any work done.)
I randomly picked the Symmetry Breaking blog and found a great set of 3D pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. Felt almost like I was actually there taking a tour of the place.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I occasionally blog about physics and math. The other half is skepticism.
Skeptic’s play
August 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Self promotion is encouraged! No need to apologize. But if you tell people a little bit about what to expect from your blog, you might get more hits.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
My Quantum Tantra site craves citing as your one-stop source for sex, drugs and quantum physics.
http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com
thanks, Sean, for your outreach program to the huddled masses on the fringes of the blogosphere.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Nicely done astronomy blog. Updated frequently and he always posts some really cool stuff.
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/
August 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Ok, if self promotion is ok, I will give a description also.
http://dotphys.net
This blog mostly does some analysis of everyday stuff and stuff I find online. It was originally designed as a set of example projects undergrad students in an introductory course could do, but I got carried away.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
First of all, this is a nice list. Didn’t know most of them.
And who wouldn’t take the opportunity to do some self promotion? reducedmass.com is a science blog for all the not-necessarily-in-science-but-still-interested people out there. Main areas are physics and astronomy.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
There goes my so-called productivity! Via the High Energy Mayhem blog, I found a talk by Krishna Rajagopal (my professor for third-term quantum — small world) on applying AdS/CFT to strongly coupled liquids like RHIC’s quark-gluon soups and cold fermionic atoms tuned to Feshbach resonance. . . . No work will happen today.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Oh, and thanks for including my blog in the list.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
See Bee’s blog, it’s just great! @ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/
August 18th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Now that self-promotion has edged in as precedent, I’ll offer the suggestion that my “Tyrannogenius” blog has the cutest impudent-braggartry title in business. Make your own mind up whether I have anything there worth saying (and I don’t keep it up well enough.) I do offer some points about why the universe is three-dimensional, and about paradoxes in quantum mechanics. I figure I really do have some bragging rights in the latter area, since Goo’ search for “quantum measurement paradox” places my post at #6 just now (it made it up to #2 a few days ago.)
August 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
[…] at my Google Reader feed at my lunch break, I saw that Sean at Cosmic Variance has updated his blog roll. Scrolling down, I was surprised to find the name of my blog linked on CV! Of course, this link […]
August 18th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I am partial to xckd.
Lawrence B. Crowell
August 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Even though I was added to the blog roll, I will add a few words about it here:
http://excitedstate.wordpress.com
I am an entering first-year grad student in physics, hoping to go into high energy theory. The blog will be about my views of grad school classes, TA, and research, along with general thoughts about life as a grad student and about physics in general.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
http://eskesthai.blogspot.com
August 20th, 2008 at 7:45 am
More ramblings from the mind that brought you Smearland…
http://hackthesmear.blogspot.com/
A scientist struggles with what it would mean to recast the laws of physics into 5 dimensions of experience.
Not for those with a low tolerance for the fringe.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thanks for adding me to the blogroll, though my blog is actually not all that new. It’s now been around for a bit over two years. It’s just that no one seems to read it.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:29 am
The Bad Plus!? I must say, I’m shocked! I love their music!
Beside that - thx for many interesting links.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Hi sean, here is my blog( biased to LQG )
http://mushfiq.net
Thanks.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:49 am
My site has moved to a new home with spurious trappings of officiality.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
It is pleasure for me to add my self-teaching cosmology blog:
http://www.tiyezerk.blogspot.com/