| User | Post |
|
10:27 am
August 12, 2010
|
sheila
| | mindsided by Blindsight | |
| Moderator
| posts 515 | |
|
|
Post edited 11:03 am – August 12, 2010 by sheila
Where do you get your science news fixes?
I used to subscribe to paper versions of New Scienstist and Nature and have let both of those lapse.
New Scientist because they've declined over the past few years (thought I wouldn't know if they've improved), and Nature because it's too expensive for just me when I don't have enough background to get as much material as I think I should if I'm paying for a personal subscription. but it was still pretty fun while I had it.
So I have no more dead tree stuff. I'll start a separate topic on brain stuff. here's what I skim for general stuff:
discover main feed
nobel intent
physics today nes picks
physics update
researchblogging
scienceblogs select
wired science
planet nature
I'm usually too busy to keep up with all of the items but find really fun stuff from time to time.
quasi deadtree (but I have a kindle these days) I will check the tuesday nytimes and also the science articles in the economist.
suggestions for new stuff I might try?
(edited because I forgot nature's blogs)
|
|
|
3:25 am
August 13, 2010
|
Schnappi
| | |
| Member | posts 8 | |
|
|
I have to admit to Sciencedaily. Good for a quick fix, although I always end up getting side-tracked by the interesting related articles that pop up in the sidebar. It's a good start from whence to google the PIs' names
|
|
|
4:07 am
August 13, 2010
|
Schnappi
| | |
| Member | posts 8 | |
|
|
Oh, and this blog is a new must, for this article alone
Power to the microbes!
|
|
|
7:04 am
August 13, 2010
|
Schnappi
| | |
| Member | posts 8 | |
|
|
Fave quote from comments: "The Small Masters are clever, and subtle."
|
|
|
7:15 am
August 13, 2010
|
sheila
| | mindsided by Blindsight | |
| Moderator
| posts 515 | |
|
|
Oh I love metafilter. This question showed up in the feed yesterday.
http://ask.metafilter.com/1621…..ence-blogs
|
|
|
7:15 pm
August 13, 2010
|
The Echo Inside
| | Canada | |
| Admin
| posts 70 | |
|
|
Post edited 7:15 pm – August 13, 2010 by The Echo Inside
I'll second wired.com, though I mainly use them for tech news actually.
I haven't kept up with it lately, but one blogger I found incredibly interesting was Carl Zimmer (he moved to discovery and I've had trouble keeping up since then):
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/
He has (or had) a particular focus on parasites and evolution, but does some other topics as well.
For space related topics, I haven't found a great source, but a good source has been:
http://www.space.com/
Their site can be somewhat of a pain though. (bonus: Astronomical picture of the day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
Not exactly science, but something that has increasing impact nowadays, for copyright (he does have more a Canada focus unless it's a wide reaching affect) I go with:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
The propaganda tends to label him as biased, but I haven't seen their claims to be very well justified.
Also haven't found a great source of robotics/AI, but this one does rather well:
http://robotzeitgeist.com/
Most posts include video of the topic in action which is nifty.
These days, I actually get most of my news referrals from twitter (yes, I know many hate it and consider it inane… and sometimes it is, but if you follow the right people it's an incredible aggregator). Might add more later, need to go feed =)
|
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
|
|
|
9:28 am
August 14, 2010
|
Chris J.
| | Indiana | |
| Member | posts 11 | |
|
|
I love Carl Zimmer's site! Also, check out Bad Astronomy on Discover, as well.
|
|
|
3:20 pm
August 14, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
3:50 pm
August 14, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
8:19 pm
August 14, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
8:39 pm
August 14, 2010
|
V
| | |
| Member | posts 14 | |
|
|
I tend to get mine from the MIT News service since I see links from it often. Sometimes there's interesting stuff there . . .
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/
|
"No, a golem knows only one thing that keeps you alive," said Carrot. "It's the words in your head."
–Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
|
|
|
1:30 pm
August 16, 2010
|
Andrea_A
| | Germany | |
| Member | posts 147 | |
|
|
My favourite place is a German magazine named "Telepolis"
http://www.heise.de/tp
The topics are ranging from bioscience to cosmology, from (geo)politics to movie reviews (and some jokes).
Sometimes "Spiegel" is interesting for me, too
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/
And last but not least I have access to some medical journals at work. I´m lingering around there when I have a break in the late shift …
|
|
|
1:58 pm
August 16, 2010
|
Hljothlegur
| | |
| Moderator
| posts 367 | |
|
|
Andrea_A said:
Sometimes "Spiegel" is interesting for me, too
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/
And last but not least I have access to some medical journals at work. I´m lingering around there when I have a break in the late shift …
Der Spiegel! We love it for following what the wildschwein are up to! Especially because they always include adorable photos to go with the story.
|
|
|
3:35 pm
August 16, 2010
|
George Berger
| | |
| Member | posts 32 | |
|
|
I subscribe To New Scientist, Interzone, the TLS, and the stuff published by the BSFA. New scientist has indeed deteriorated, but so has Scientific American. In my opinion the latter is now less informative and helpful than NS (About ten years ago Scientific American was bought up by some firm, which consciously made it into a more "popular" magazine.). I do read New Scientist, and when I see anything I wish to know more about I go to Google or ask friends. This compensates for the lack of detail in the magazine. That said, its articles' brevity is fine with me, since usually, every paragraph counts. The last time I bought Scientific American I read some article that was about five pages long, but whose meat occupied less than two paragraphs. That's when I decided to subscribe to New Scientist.
|
|
|
9:47 pm
August 17, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
12:23 pm
August 18, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
3:38 pm
August 18, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
Although not science news per se, some tech, scifi, nerdy and goofy things, which kinda goes with science types ~ 
http://laughingsquid.com/
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
12:39 am
August 20, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
|
8:59 am
August 20, 2010
|
sheila
| | mindsided by Blindsight | |
| Moderator
| posts 515 | |
|
|
George Berger said:
I subscribe To New Scientist, Interzone, [...good notes on NS and other mags]
I used to have a subscription to Interzone and I miss it. That's another one that fell by the wayside when I was budgeting subscription expenses. I wish they had an electronic version.
Does anyone know if they have that in the works?
|
|
|
2:36 pm
August 20, 2010
|
keanani
| | |
| Member | posts 155 | |
|
|
|
|
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
|
|
Login 
Register 
Search 
Forum
Print this Post 
Topic RSS 
