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1 post published by Leigh Beadon on January 14, 2024

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is a simple anonymous comment about the dangerous "protect the children" ballot initiative in California: That is not a protect the children law, that is an I hate social media and it must be destroyed law. In second place, it's Blake Stacey passing on the…

Production on Open Lab 2010 is proceeding apace, thanks to the valiant assistance of Blake Stacey. While we put the finishing touches on it, though, it is time to announce the sixth anthology.* The submission form for the 2011 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since December 1, 2010 is eligible for submission.

Brent Thompson, 28, was killed after being hit by a SUV traveling at about 70 miles per hour in February.

1 post published by Leigh Beadon on May 29, 2022

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This week, both our winners on the insightful side are anonymous responses to commenters trotting out the same old, boring, easily dismissed arguments about content moderation on our post about how very little content moderation has anything to do with politics. In first place, it's a response to someone basically just saying "nuh-uh, of course…

The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.

Still recovering. Flights were smooth. I finally finished Jennifer Rohn's book on the airplane. I hated my Chapel Hill neighbors, lounging at the pool in 78F, as I was leaving for the cold, snowy Boston. But now I'm back.

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