2010–2014

2014 299

December 2014

1. 31 DecHoliday Redux: The Case for Tracking Outcomes, End-of-the-Year Edition
2. 30 DecHoliday Redux: A Bookseller And His Well
3. 29 DecHoliday Redux: The Ceremonial Stone
4. 27 DecThe Last Word, Dec 22-26
5. 26 DecHoliday Redux: The Beauty of Punctuation
6. 25 DecHoliday Redux: I Can’t Put It Down
7. 24 DecHoliday Redux: The Hidden Carols of England
8. 23 DecRead This
9. 22 DecWatch This
10. 20 DecThe Last Word
11. 19 DecThe Long Legacy of a Good Deed
12. 18 DecHow to Write a Science Feature
13. 17 DecGuest Post: The Art of Losing Paperclips
14. 16 DecWho Gives Press Releases Their Power?
15. 15 DecMarvin Goldberger, Always Called “Murph”: Part 2
16. 13 DecThe Last Word, December 8-12
17. 12 DecMarvin Goldberger, Always Called “Murph”: Part I
18. 11 DecHiding in Plain Out-of-Sight
19. 10 DecGuest Post: What science can learn from religion
20. 9 DecGuest Post: the Truth about Cats & Dogs
21. 8 DecIra Glass is Not My Friend and Some Thoughts on Serial
22. 6 DecThe Last Word, December 1-5, 2014
23. 5 DecRainbow Connection
24. 4 DecThumbs Up! Don’t Shoot!
25. 3 DecGasp. Pant. Brr.
26. 2 DecExtraordinary Experiences Don’t Necessarily Make You Popular
27. 1 DecYay Philae! Yay Europe, Europe, Europe!

November 2014

1. 29 NovThe Last Word, November 24-28, 2014
2. 28 NovThe Most Important Thing to Happen in the History of the World Was … Panama?
3. 27 NovThe Thankers of LWON
4. 26 NovKonrad Steffen’s Desk
5. 25 NovSpider at the Window
6. 24 NovCosmopomorphism
7. 22 NovThe Last Word, November 17-21, 2014
8. 21 NovTwo and a Half Months of Milkweed
9. 20 NovCold Hands, Warm Space Heater
10. 19 NovTesser Well
11. 18 NovWinter Blooms
12. 17 NovGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: VII: $64,000 Questions
13. 15 NovThe Last Word: November 10-14, 2014
14. 14 NovBoth Our Houses
15. 13 NovUrban Allies May Save the World
16. 11 NovOutdoors After Dark
17. 10 NovGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: VI. An Incident in the Pancreas:
18. 8 NovThe Last Word: November 3-7, 2014
19. 7 NovAbundance of Caution
20. 6 NovInputting Narratives
21. 5 NovDear Time: Would You Please Stop Being So Stupid?
22. 4 NovGotta Have Faith
23. 3 NovGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: V. A Family Matter?
24. 1 NovThe Last Word: October 27 – 31, 2014

October 2014

1. 31 OctGuest Post: The Three Quarks of Life
2. 29 OctForward by Failure
3. 28 OctSeeing Mammoths
4. 27 OctGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: IV. Day of Reckoning
5. 25 OctThe Last Word
6. 24 OctConversation with Sharon & Geoff: Starship Fusion
7. 23 OctOn a Decade of Getting Pooped On By Birds
8. 22 OctGuest Post: Bobby Gborgar Joe Speaks From His Bones
9. 21 OctBad Science Poet
10. 20 OctGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: III. Facing Reality, Finally
11. 18 OctThe Last Word
12. 17 OctFew Words with Much Meaning
13. 16 OctGuest Post: I Have a Beaver I Am Going to Kill
14. 15 OctWindow Seat
15. 14 OctHappy Lady Ada Day
16. 13 OctGuest Post: Affair of the Heart: II. Neglect Not So Benign
17. 11 OctThe Last Word
18. 10 OctOff Our Meds: Guest Post
19. 8 OctOff Our Meds: Doctor Knows Best
20. 7 OctOff Our Meds: The Theater of Medicine
21. 6 OctOff Our Meds: Guest Post: The Ebola Numbers
22. 4 OctThe Last Word
23. 3 OctWalking With Open Eyes
24. 2 OctGuest Post: My Unhard Heart
25. 1 OctRedux: A Dead World at Sunset

September 2014

1. 30 SepThose Who Emerged from the Earth
2. 29 SepGuest Post: Planning to Sprawl
3. 27 SepLast Word
4. 26 SepThe Legacy of Lonesome Larry
5. 25 SepThe Writings on the Wall
6. 24 SepGuest Post: Another Kind of Coming Out Story
7. 23 SepWeapons-Grade Private Enterprise
8. 22 SepDonald Trump Is the World’s Greatest Performance Artist
9. 20 SepThe Last Word
10. 19 SepThe Floating World of Jellyfish
11. 18 SepAll the Other Franklins
12. 17 SepStepping Off the Multi-Tasking Treadmill
13. 16 SepMore Energy, Less Freedom
14. 15 SepGuest Post: Bárðarbunga and the Winters of Winds, of the Sword, of the World
15. 13 SepThe Last Word
16. 11 Sep13 Years Later and Still Bracing
17. 10 SepThe Urban Ocean
18. 9 SepWhy Archeologists Hate Indiana Jones
19. 8 SepRedux: Auditing Astronomy Class
20. 6 SepLast Word
21. 5 SepLessons Not Learned
22. 3 SepShe
23. 2 SepTwo Docs Walk Into A Bar
24. 1 SepSounds of Summer

August 2014

1. 30 AugThe Last Word
2. 28 AugThe Roads Not Traveled
3. 27 AugThings that Smell
4. 26 AugAbstruse Goose: Transformers v. 3
5. 25 AugOnly I
6. 23 AugThe Last Word
7. 22 AugIn Warm Water
8. 20 AugGuest Post: Writing a Relationship
9. 19 AugVery Aromatic Plant Chocolate Chip
10. 18 AugRedux: Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology
11. 16 AugThe Last Word
12. 15 AugAbstruse Goose, Snark Week Edition: The Cat’s Revenge
13. 14 AugSnark Week: Look Who’s Hell Bent on World Domination
14. 13 AugSnark Week: Moose are dopey and dangerous!
15. 12 AugSnark Week: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back Into the Henhouse
16. 11 AugSnark Week: Evil Has a New Name – and Buck Teeth
17. 11 AugIntroducing Snark Week, Vol. 2
18. 9 AugThe Last Word
19. 8 AugFish of a feather
20. 7 AugFollow the Fish
21. 6 AugDays Are Numbered
22. 5 AugOn the Trail of the Great Tinamou
23. 4 AugFacts? Sure. Truth? Hmm.
24. 2 AugThe Last Word
25. 1 AugThe Case for Tracking Outcomes

July 2014

1. 31 JulStrikeout
2. 29 JulThe Ninja Glass Ceiling
3. 28 JulAbstruse Goose: Barbie Goes Rogue
4. 26 JulThe Last Word
5. 25 JulDraw Me a Picture of Nature
6. 24 JulThe Gig Economy
7. 23 JulThe Ritual of Red Ochre
8. 22 JulZoned Out
9. 21 JulThe Chessmen That Conquered the World (of Cinema)
10. 19 JulThe Last Word
11. 18 JulMouse Medicine to Combat Lyme
12. 17 JulDog Days
13. 16 JulUnion and Reunion
14. 15 JulThe Wisdom of a Summer Afternoon, Redux
15. 14 JulGuest Post: How Our Pets Domesticated Us
16. 12 JulThe Last Word
17. 11 JulGive Me a Heroine Who Invents
18. 10 JulSlay a Monster—With Science!
19. 8 JulAbstruse Goose: Sudokomic Game
20. 5 JulThe Last Word
21. 4 JulComing Home From Saudi Arabia
22. 3 JulAnti-Copernican Shock
23. 2 JulA Placebo a Day…
24. 1 JulGuest Post: Farewell Invertebrates, We Hardly Knew You

June 2014

1. 30 JunThe Secret Lives of Animals
2. 29 JunAbstruse Goose: the Mad Scientist, IRL
3. 28 JunThe Last Word
4. 27 JunTGIVF: So Many Ways to Make a Fake Vajayjay
5. 26 JunThe Ghosts in the Machines
6. 25 JunRedux Post: The thin white line
7. 24 JunReport from the Solutions Summit
8. 23 JunGuest Post: Death of a Fig Tree: My Climate Change
9. 21 JunThe Last Word
10. 20 JunFreezeproof a Fairy—With Science!
11. 19 JunAbstruse Goose: Game of Thrones = Dragons + War of the Roses
12. 18 JunScience Metaphors (cont.): Tidally Locked
13. 17 JunFeet, Defeated
14. 16 JunUnbroken Water: Following an Intact Hydrologic Cyle in Patagonia
15. 14 JunThe Last Word
16. 13 JunWhat’s in a Word?
17. 12 JunA stark introduction to geologic time
18. 11 JunThis Too Shall Pass
19. 10 JunRepeat After Us
20. 9 JunFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
21. 7 JunThe Last Word
22. 6 JunGuest Post: Return to Laki
23. 5 JunOn the Menu
24. 4 JunWhy I Won’t Watch California Chrome Race on Saturday
25. 3 JunExoplanet Oliver, Oh Please?
26. 2 JunAstronaut, Heal Thyself

May 2014

1. 31 MayThe Last Word
2. 30 MaySnuggle Puppy’s Tell-Tale Heart
3. 29 MayRedux: The Knowledge
4. 28 MayConfessions of an Artifact Hunter
5. 27 MayAbstruse Goose: TV on the Stars
6. 26 MayGold Stars
7. 24 MayThe Last Word
8. 23 MayGuest Post: Archimedes in the Fence
9. 22 MayClimate Change: The Anti-Story?
10. 21 MayGuest Post: My prism of postpartum depression
11. 19 MayFunny How the Knight Moves
12. 17 MayThe Last Word
13. 16 MayAll Shaken Up
14. 15 MayThe Iniquity of Candied Orange Peel
15. 14 MayGiant Stack of Spacecraft
16. 13 MayGuest Post: Department of Household Sciences, Division of Rubbing and Scrubbing
17. 12 MayI Dream of Wrigley
18. 10 MayThe Last Word
19. 9 MayThe Hard Realities of Raising Humane Food
20. 8 MayAbstruse Goose: Being and Nothingness
21. 7 MayWhat Dust Does
22. 6 MayTGIPF: The Weird World of Banana Slug Sex: Redux
23. 5 MayGuest Post: The Art (& Science) of Lefty Portraits
24. 3 MayThe Last Word
25. 2 MayDrawing What I See
26. 1 MayAncestral Dreams in NewSpace

April 2014

1. 30 AprBeauty & Truth in Writing about Science
2. 29 AprThe Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention
3. 28 AprGuest Post: Tears of the Warrior
4. 26 AprThe Last Word
5. 25 AprTGIPF: Look! International Symbol!
6. 24 AprGuest Post, pt. 2: Why Are Doctors Skeptical & Unhelpful about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
7. 23 AprGuest Post, pt. 1: Why Are Doctors Skeptical & Unhelpful about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
8. 22 AprHow losing my smart phone made me smarter
9. 21 AprRedux: How I learned to stop worrying and love the radioactive spiderwebs
10. 19 AprThe Last Word
11. 18 AprColon Cancer Screening Saves Lives?
12. 17 AprA Hometown Hero, A Foreign Flag
13. 16 AprGoing Once, Going Twice
14. 15 AprLosing My Math
15. 14 AprAbstruse Goose: Electronic Man
16. 12 AprThe Last Word
17. 11 AprGarwin: the Movie (UPDATED)
18. 10 AprWaiting for Peak Bloom
19. 9 AprIt’s Time to Evolve. Yes, You Too.
20. 8 AprAn Arctic Encounter
21. 7 AprNew person of LWON: Craig Childs
22. 7 AprThe value of collegiate sports
23. 5 AprThe Last Word
24. 4 AprAbstruse Goose: NUM63R5
25. 3 AprMontana’s Buffalo Conundrum
26. 2 AprSour Grass
27. 1 AprGuest Post: Can an Equation be a Poem?

March 2014

1. 31 MarKepler on the Moon, Part (Who Knew?) 3
2. 29 MarThe Last Word
3. 28 MarGuest Post: The Year of the Flood
4. 27 MarA Pirate’s Life For Us
5. 26 MarInfected and Imprisoned
6. 22 MarThe Last Word
7. 21 MarThe Long Now of the Tiburón Bighorn
8. 20 MarDo Peepguins Need Sweaters?
9. 19 MarGuest Post: I Walked Across the Hudson River
10. 18 MarInterview with Will Storr: Disputable Sources
11. 17 MarDo Penguins Need Sweaters?
12. 15 MarThe Last Word
13. 14 MarA tiny cave creature, eyeless and deadly
14. 13 MarAttack of the Killer Moose
15. 12 MarThe story I won’t tell
16. 11 MarMare Incognitum
17. 10 MarGuest Post: Put Your Money Where Darwin’s Mouth Is
18. 8 MarThe Last Word
19. 7 MarKepler on the Moon, Part 2
20. 6 MarKepler on the Moon, Part 1
21. 5 MarLove Song for the Capital Weather Gang
22. 4 MarVoyage of Discovery: Art and the Arctic
23. 3 MarAbstruse Goose: NSA Surveillance, Solved
24. 1 MarThe Last Word(s)

February 2014

1. 28 FebGuest Post: Thought’s First Draft
2. 27 FebCable Companies’ Hidden Scam
3. 26 FebToo good to be true: The No-Till Solution
4. 25 FebDeath Barged In
5. 24 FebTrain of Thought
6. 22 FebThe Last Word
7. 21 FebSeattle: Land of Amazon, Boeing, and Ancient Mammoths
8. 20 FebWho Knows What Lurks in the Cans of Soda?
9. 19 FebSnowbound and Murderous
10. 18 FebThis Is a Story About Dancing Monkeys. Really.
11. 17 FebA Lungful of Quiet
12. 15 FebThe Last Word
13. 13 FebBreast cancer’s latest saga: misfearing and misplaced goalposts
14. 12 FebThe beleaguered loon
15. 11 FebGuest Post: Painful Lessons
16. 10 FebPolio and a Father’s Certainty
17. 8 FebThe Last Word
18. 7 FebOn Tap, Special Reserve
19. 5 FebWhy I’ve Become a Distracted Driving Bore
20. 4 FebMuch As I Loved It, I’m Not Going Back
21. 1 FebThe Last Word

January 2014

1. 31 JanWe Are All Both Ant and Grasshopper
2. 30 JanDoes Your Messy Desk Make You a Bad Person?
3. 29 JanMy Dirty Stream
4. 28 JanCan the World’s Greatest Athlete Have a Name like ‘Twiggy?’
5. 27 JanGuest Post: Mad Collectors of Science
6. 25 JanThe Last Word
7. 24 JanMustn’t Grumble
8. 23 Jan24 Reasons to Ignore Best Places Lists
9. 22 JanAnother Cup of Bull Honkey
10. 21 JanAbstruse Goose: Piss ‘Em Off
11. 18 JanThe Last Word
12. 17 JanThe G-out Room
13. 16 JanNaturalist Without a Notebook
14. 15 JanGuest Post: The Importance of Being Peculiar
15. 14 JanCan’t We All Just … ?
16. 13 JanThe Golden Notebooks: An Awards Show for Us
17. 11 JanThe Last Word
18. 10 JanYou Don’t Know Squat
19. 9 JanThe Hidden Carols of England
20. 8 JanA mushroom that smells like maple syrup
21. 7 JanHow an internet quiz put me in my place
22. 6 JanThe First Hero: A Girl
23. 5 JanThe Last Word
24. 3 JanThink Like an Elephant Seal
25. 3 JanAbstruse Goose: Little Knowledge = Danger
26. 2 JanI Regret the Error

2013 307

December 2013

1. 31 DecHoliday Review: Snail Season and Remix
2. 30 DecHoliday Review: Closed-System Sibling Knowledge
3. 29 DecThe Last Word
4. 26 DecHoliday Review: An Open Letter to Yosemite National Park
5. 25 DecHoliday Review: Why Blog?
6. 24 DecHoliday Review: For his bairns, and his bairns’ bairns, and their beavers
7. 23 DecHoliday Review: The Shutdown
8. 21 DecThe last word
9. 20 DecTGIPF: A Penis Shaped Like a Musical Instrument
10. 19 DecFinding Peter Ganz
11. 18 DecOne Weird Old Trick to Undermine the Patriarchy
12. 17 DecGrowing the Science Writing Pie
13. 16 DecThe Mystery of the Ill-Timed Tides
14. 15 DecThe Last Word
15. 13 DecSimple ways to save a life
16. 12 DecY’all Need this Word
17. 11 DecOnce Upon a Bacterium
18. 10 DecAbstruse Goose: Astronomology
19. 9 DecGuest Post: Talk to Them, Just Talk to Them
20. 7 DecThe Last Word
21. 6 DecMy love-hate relationship with e-books
22. 5 DecOf Worms and Fish and Men
23. 4 DecThe Botanist Nobody Knew
24. 3 DecThe Wonderful World of Oz…and Science
25. 2 DecThe Rime of the Ancient Astronomers

November 2013

1. 30 NovThe Last Word
2. 29 NovAs Ends in Themselves
3. 28 NovThanksgiving at LWON: Recalibration, Standard Candles, and Teammates For Life
4. 27 NovThe future is vomitous
5. 25 NovRedux: Long, Tough Road to Stroke Recovery
6. 23 NovThe Last Word
7. 22 NovMTrPs, Or Why I Regularly Scream “Holy Sweet Barracuda’s Taint!”
8. 21 NovObsessions, Dreams and Premonitions
9. 20 NovThe beauty of punctuation
10. 19 NovKitty Cat News Flash
11. 18 NovOnce Upon a Phylogeny
12. 16 NovThe Last Word
13. 15 NovTGIPF: Cloudy With a Chance of NSFW
14. 14 NovThe mental health paradox
15. 13 NovAre Academics a Public Resource?
16. 12 NovToe Fungus And Why No One Loves a Science Writer
17. 11 NovWhat Luis Alvarez Did
18. 9 NovThe Last Word
19. 8 NovMapping the Infested Mind
20. 7 NovToenails Optional
21. 6 NovPhysicians Who Do Harm
22. 5 NovWomen’s Work in Space
23. 4 NovDancing in the streets
24. 2 NovThe Last Word
25. 1 NovA Crappy Little Bastard That Tastes Great

October 2013

1. 31 OctThe truth about truth
2. 30 OctToo hot for moose
3. 29 OctNot Shilling for NASA But Really, This Is Good
4. 28 OctAbstruse Goose: Anti-Vaxxer Blooown Away
5. 26 OctThe Last Word
6. 25 OctCanada’s lost generation of scientists
7. 24 OctA Taste of Authenticity
8. 23 OctWho’s Your Momma?
9. 22 OctGuest Post: Not Ready For Their Close-Up
10. 21 OctUnknown legends in their time
11. 19 OctThe Last Word
12. 18 OctBig Brother Science
13. 17 OctStrange Times in Washington
14. 16 OctWhy the Debate over Abortion is Secretly Awesome
15. 15 OctGuest Post: Six (Or Seven) Degrees of Separation
16. 14 OctAsk Mr. Cosmology
17. 12 OctThe Last Word
18. 11 OctChukotka to Myanmar or Bust
19. 10 OctCurses, cursive!
20. 9 OctGuest Post: Lost in Congo
21. 8 OctFAQs about breast cancer screening
22. 7 OctFreeman Dyson Turns 90
23. 5 OctThe Last Word
24. 4 OctEn Garde..Touche
25. 3 OctGuest Post: A new love for the very old
26. 2 OctLove City
27. 1 OctWhy I don’t run

September 2013

1. 30 SepAbstruse Goose: the Snoopable Internet
2. 28 SepThe Last Word
3. 27 SepNewsprint is dead. Long live newsprint!
4. 26 SepOn Eating Whale
5. 25 SepGuest Post: Postcards from Mali
6. 24 SepWay! Or, Queen meets quantum physics
7. 23 SepGuest Post: Accounting for All the Pretty Horses
8. 20 SepSleeping Giant
9. 19 SepQ&A: Big Bang Theory
10. 18 SepAfter the Devil, the Deluge
11. 17 SepHell Is Murky
12. 16 SepBirth Of The World’s First Underwater Museum
13. 14 SepThe Last Word
14. 13 SepI, entomophage
15. 12 SepDown by the River at the Navy Museum
16. 11 SepDown the chimney
17. 10 SepThe Sidewalk Astronomer
18. 9 SepGuest Post: Are You Still Drawing Those Bugs?
19. 7 SepThe Last Word
20. 6 SepDiscovery-based Ignorance
21. 5 SepBridge to somewhere
22. 4 SepGuest post: The Curious Incident of the Flashlight in the Night-Time, Part 2
23. 3 SepGuest post: The Curious Incident of the Flashlight in the Night-Time, Part 1
24. 2 SepDusting Off Metaphors

August 2013

1. 31 AugThe Last Word
2. 30 AugGuest post: Remembering the Ice
3. 29 AugWhat is a good death?
4. 28 AugHow to conjure a forest out of thin air
5. 27 AugLet a Vast Assembly Be
6. 26 AugGuest Post: Oh. I Thought You Were a Guy.
7. 24 AugThe Last Word
8. 22 AugFlorida’s Python Problem
9. 21 AugJohnny and Oppie
10. 20 AugThis week’s worst press release (so far)
11. 19 AugHot Times in the Cotswolds
12. 17 AugThe Last Word
13. 16 AugSnark Week: The Souless Flesh-Eating Kea
14. 15 AugSnark Week: Don’t Pet the Ants
15. 14 AugSnark Week: Hoppin’ down the bunny trail–to hell!
16. 13 AugSnark Week: The Gribble
17. 12 AugSnark Week: The Rooster and the Puppy
18. 12 AugIntroducing Snark Week
19. 10 AugThe Last Word
20. 9 AugLies, Damned Lies, and Memories
21. 8 AugBrothers in Obsolescence
22. 7 AugA Tiny Dolphin and a Big Problem
23. 6 AugLeaving the party: a grateful goodbye
24. 5 AugSinging Our Hearts Out
25. 2 AugNew Person of LWON: Helen Fields
26. 2 AugMy frenemy; or, Chanel the corpse flower
27. 1 AugConversation with Dan Vergano: the Science Ghetto

July 2013

1. 31 JulI hate climbing, but love having climbed
2. 30 JulThe macabre habits of the butcher bird
3. 29 JulGuest Post: Me vs Myers-Briggs
4. 27 JulThe Last Word
5. 26 JulAG: Physicists Are Just Proto-Philosophers
6. 24 JulUntil the Bitter End
7. 23 JulThe Most Dangerous Volcano in North America
8. 22 JulAsk Mr. Cosmology
9. 20 JulThe Last Word
10. 19 JulThank God It’s Sexy Friday: The mysterious art of chicken sexing
11. 18 JulDropping the kids off at the pool
12. 17 JulGuest Post: Estimating Deaths
13. 16 JulDinner Guide to Saving the Ocean
14. 12 JulThe Last Word
15. 12 JulFor his bairns, and his bairns’ bairns, and their beavers
16. 11 JulThe Godless Particle
17. 10 JulScience Meets Bird, Bird Meets Science
18. 9 JulOut of my skin
19. 8 JulRemembering Randy Udall
20. 6 JulThe Last Word
21. 5 JulReturning to my roots
22. 4 JulScience Writer Stares Out Window
23. 3 JulSearching for the World’s Worst Glass of Water
24. 2 JulAG: The Lucasian Throne
25. 1 JulA half-million-year-old horse? Yawn. Show me a warm summer day in San Francisco.

June 2013

1. 29 JunThe Last Word
2. 28 JunWatching your back
3. 27 JunThe True Mermaids
4. 26 JunHow Natural is Homosexuality?
5. 25 JunBless the Superspreaders
6. 24 JunRedux: Embracing My Hubble Moments
7. 22 JunThe Last Word
8. 21 JunRelativity for Preschoolers
9. 20 JunPlugging In
10. 19 JunConversation: Girls Reading Boy Books
11. 18 JunDigits of the Devil
12. 17 JunWhy did the boy throw the butter out the window?*
13. 15 JunThe Last Word
14. 14 JunChasing Transits
15. 13 JunNew Person of LWON: Roberta Kwok
16. 13 JunIt Wasn’t The Junk Food That Made Me Fat – It Was The Bag
17. 12 JunSomething Up His Sleeve, Part 2
18. 11 JunSomething Up His Sleeve, Part 1
19. 10 JunAbstruse Goose: Consolation
20. 8 JunThe Last Word
21. 7 JunChopper Journalism
22. 6 JunA Chilling (Not Actually Possible) Future
23. 5 JunBelow the Snow
24. 4 JunGuest Post: Interspecies Dating Tips for Neanderthal Men
25. 3 JunIf He Only Had a (Clue About the) Brain
26. 1 JunThe Last Word

May 2013

1. 31 MayYour Guide to the Future
2. 30 MayBlown-Down Trees on the Dark Side
3. 29 MayGuest Post: Enough With the Spin
4. 28 MayIs There Such A Thing As Extinction Proof?
5. 27 MaySoap Operas versus the Population Bomb?
6. 25 MayThe Last Word
7. 24 MayBuds
8. 23 MayThe Crash
9. 22 MayFasting: The New Fad Diet?
10. 21 MayGuns on the brain
11. 20 MayRedux: What to Wear on an Ice-Age Sea Voyage?
12. 18 MayThe Last Word
13. 17 MayOh, Spring
14. 16 MayThe Darling Buds of May
15. 15 MayGuest Post: Experimenting on My Kids: What’s really being tested?
16. 14 MayOn Henry VIII and the mystery of the missing male heirs
17. 13 MayRed Badge of Courage (Or, The One Where I Jinx Myself)
18. 11 MayThe Last Word
19. 10 MayBuild Your Own Tribe … in Five Easy Steps
20. 9 MayThis is what a meaningless study looks like.
21. 8 MayUnconnected Dots: Sport and Will Power
22. 7 MayThe Last Word on The Science Writers’ Handbook
23. 6 MayGuest Post: Death’s Eternal Logistics
24. 4 MayThe Last Word
25. 3 MayTemple Grandin & a Neurotypical Write a Book
26. 2 MayLook Out My Window, There Goes Home
27. 1 MayBell, Berners-Lee, and the Promise of New Technology

April 2013

1. 30 AprPlaydate with Eeyore: Why Big Data science means big challenges for reporters
2. 29 AprOne Justin Bieber
3. 27 AprThe Last Word
4. 26 AprDebunking Hollywood: Headshot
5. 25 AprTGIPF: Abstruse Goose on Not Envying the Penis
6. 24 AprDust on our crust
7. 23 AprDebunking Hollywood: Science On the Fringe
8. 22 AprGuest Post: Dumped! by Google
9. 20 AprThe Last Word
10. 19 AprI Have Just Two Questions
11. 18 AprBroadening the Beam of Compassion
12. 17 AprFast Journalism and Senseless Acts of Violence
13. 16 AprWhereas the Microbe
14. 15 AprGuest Post: From a place with little relief for mental wounds
15. 13 AprThe Last Word
16. 11 AprWhat happens when we can’t afford to be prepared?
17. 10 AprGirl Swiping Finger on Screen
18. 9 AprCorrection
19. 8 AprBirds in a Blender
20. 6 AprThe Last Word
21. 5 AprVaccines, Viruses, and the Anti-Vax Movement
22. 4 AprGuest Post: Sun, Sea, & Sauropods
23. 3 AprIs CPR for the victim or the bystanders?
24. 2 AprI’m with stupid
25. 1 AprGuest Post: Family Man Who Invented Relativity and Made Great Chili Dies

March 2013

1. 30 MarThe Last Word
2. 29 MarTGIPF: A Deep-Sea Squid Does It Upside-Down and Backward
3. 28 MarThe Xenotopian Impulse
4. 27 MarWas it worth it?
5. 26 MarThe Institute of Making
6. 25 MarCorrelation, Speculation and the Periodicity of Environmental Journalism
7. 23 MarThe Last Word
8. 22 MarThe sniffle, hack, sneeze blame game
9. 21 MarUninformed consent, revisited
10. 20 MarBrewing Up a Very Good Time
11. 19 MarGuest Post: Data Mining and Visualization: Bed Bug Edition
12. 18 MarA. Wellerstein & the Death of a Patent Clerk
13. 16 MarThe Last Word
14. 15 MarTGIPF: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby!
15. 14 MarThe Flower of Dangerous Love
16. 13 MarDebunking Hollywood: Knockout Shot
17. 12 MarHumanizing details
18. 11 MarAbstruse Goose: In the Classroom
19. 9 MarThe Last Word
20. 8 MarAttack of the Super Sucker
21. 7 MarGuest Post: The Unknown Grizzly
22. 6 MarFloating Domestic Object, Unidentified No Longer (part two of two)
23. 5 MarRedux: Survivor Woman
24. 4 MarCry the Beloved Porcupine
25. 2 MarThe last word
26. 1 MarFarm Hall: the Fall into Failure

February 2013

1. 28 FebTeach Your _____ Well
2. 27 FebThe Adventures of Dr. Watson, Science Writer
3. 26 FebWhy is falling so funny?
4. 25 FebNot Every Day Is A Good Day
5. 23 FebThe Last Word
6. 22 FebName that UFO (Unidentified Floating Object)
7. 21 FebGuest Post: Looking for Moderns in All the Wrong Places
8. 20 FebReview — Dene: A Journey
9. 19 FebGuest Post: How big is that gray area?
10. 18 FebThe Sad Fate of Libertas Schultze-Boysen
11. 16 FebThe Last Word
12. 15 FebTGIPF: Alligator Awesome
13. 14 FebValentine’s Day Tips from the Animal Kingdom
14. 13 FebBad Wind Made Better
15. 12 FebPetula Clark Turns 80
16. 11 FebAbstruse Goose: Computer Programming 101
17. 9 FebThe Last Word
18. 8 FebAfraid of the Shark
19. 7 FebUninformed consent
20. 5 FebSleep Aids
21. 4 FebRosemary Learns Hearing. Again.
22. 2 FebThe Last Word
23. 1 FebLove Story

January 2013

1. 31 JanI am not my data.
2. 30 JanUnborn Aspirations
3. 29 JanFlakey
4. 28 JanGuest Post: Becoming a Statistician
5. 26 JanThe Last Word
6. 25 JanA Disease, A Miracle Drug, and a Tale of Uncertain Survival
7. 24 JanGoodnight, Linnaeus: Bathtub Systematics and the Nature of Scientific Curiosity, Part I
8. 23 JanA Very Dark Corner of Indian Life
9. 22 JanBook Review: Several Ways to Die in Mexico
10. 21 JanAbstruse Goose: Electromagnetic Leak
11. 20 JanThe Last Word
12. 18 JanAnti-Love Biotech, and the Neuroenhancement of Love
13. 17 JanWhat I’m Not Going to Do
14. 16 JanGuest Post: The psychology of anthropomorphism, or why I felt empathy towards a piece of trash
15. 15 JanMurmuration. The poetry of the morning walk.
16. 14 JanFrom Atlas to Plates of Meat
17. 12 JanThe Last Word
18. 11 JanGuest Post: After the Crash
19. 10 JanImprove Your Memory With Reverse Peristalsis
20. 9 JanGuest Post: What’s That? And That?
21. 8 JanThe (Un)Happiness Project
22. 7 JanI Have No Clue Why the Caged Bird Sings
23. 5 JanThe Last Word
24. 4 JanDamn You, Predictive-Text Typewriter!
25. 3 JanWhat’s in a Tattoo?
26. 2 JanWater, Water, Everywhere
27. 1 JanGuest Post: Rendered Speechless

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December 2012

1. 31 DecSecret Satans: Math
2. 29 DecThe Last Word
3. 28 DecSecret Satans: Physics
4. 27 DecSecret Satans: Technology
5. 26 DecSecret Satans: Chem 101
6. 25 DecSecret Satans: Archaeology
7. 24 DecSecret Satans: Neuroscience
8. 23 DecSunday Stories
9. 22 DecThe Last Word
10. 21 DecSecret Satans: Biology
11. 20 DecRoadies of Science
12. 19 DecHow creeps get away with it
13. 18 DecGuest Post: Sick Monkey Mess
14. 15 DecThe Last Word
15. 14 DecThe World’s Biggest Mountain Town Gets Its Due
16. 13 DecNew Person of LWON: Erik Vance
17. 13 DecWhat Do We Owe to the Next Species After Us?
18. 12 DecNewsweek Is Dead, and Other Stuff You Already Knew
19. 11 DecOn the Road
20. 10 DecGuest Post: The Wine Grapes of Westeros
21. 9 DecSunday Stories
22. 8 DecThe Last Word
23. 7 DecThat’s One Small Step For Deuterium
24. 6 DecThe Smoking Hills
25. 5 DecDance Party!
26. 4 DecGuest Post: Confession of a Climate Coward
27. 3 DecDIY Space Flight
28. 2 DecSunday Stories
29. 1 DecThe Last Word

November 2012

1. 30 NovThe Mind of a Marathoner
2. 29 NovRedux: Squirrel & Snake Physics
3. 28 NovThe Shiny-Jewel Tree of Palenque
4. 27 NovHow Numbers Feel
5. 26 NovAbstruse Goose: Party!
6. 25 NovSunday Stories
7. 24 NovThe Last Word, Turkey Day edition
8. 23 NovBlack Friday Special: 24 LWON posts for the price of one
9. 22 NovRe-Awakenings
10. 21 NovSeason of the snood.
11. 20 NovOne, two, three, er…many.
12. 19 NovMATTER Takes Online Publishing Out on a Limb
13. 17 NovThe Last Word
14. 16 NovThe Pseudoscience of Chronic Lyme
15. 15 NovWe’re Back
16. 15 NovFalling
17. 14 NovThe Trainman and the Nobel Laureate
18. 13 NovAbstruse Goose: Disproportionate Reaction
19. 12 NovConan’s Umwelt: How a Dog Sniffs
20. 10 NovThe Last Word
21. 9 NovPeak Conservation
22. 8 NovCoffeewise by Owl-Light
23. 7 NovElection Hangover
24. 6 NovGuest Post: The Zombie Zeitgeist, Ham Radio, and the End of the World
25. 5 NovJonah Lehrer, Scientists, and the Nature of Truth
26. 3 NovThe Last Word
27. 2 NovTGIPF: The Dawn of the Deed Edition
28. 1 NovThe Mystery of the Windsor Chair

October 2012

1. 30 OctCarbon (Spin) Cycle
2. 29 OctGuest Post: How to Visit a Natural History Museum
3. 27 OctThe Last Word
4. 26 OctDance of Conquest
5. 25 OctWhere the Boys Are (The men need to be, too)
6. 24 OctMigrations
7. 23 OctShould the Public Pay for Junk Food?
8. 22 OctAbstruse Goose: Riemann Hypothesis, the Movie
9. 20 OctThe Last Word
10. 19 OctFresh Blood and New Ideas
11. 18 OctPhysicist Makes Movie
12. 17 OctMy Daughter, the Dinosaur
13. 16 OctBlowing the whistle
14. 15 OctWhy Run When You Can Have Brunch Instead?
15. 13 OctThe Last Word
16. 12 OctA real cancer hero
17. 11 OctA Day at the Opera
18. 10 OctThe Latest Thing in E-Readers: Scanning Electron Microscopy
19. 9 OctBook Review: The Time Cure
20. 8 OctBuddha, Space, Meteorites and Nazi Science
21. 6 OctThe Last Word
22. 4 OctAbstruse Goose: Many Damn Worlds
23. 3 OctScience Plus/Versus Religion
24. 2 OctThe false narratives of pink ribbon month, redux
25. 1 OctWhy More Scientists Should Tell Stories

September 2012

1. 29 SepThe Last Word
2. 28 SepThe Right To Bear Arms
3. 27 SepPoo Fighters
4. 26 SepLost in the Cloud
5. 25 SepWhen you’re in Manitoba, you’re never speeding
6. 24 SepThe Pursuit of Balance
7. 22 SepThe Last Word
8. 20 SepThe Sweetness of Human Evolution
9. 18 SepRedux: Let Sleeping Neanderthals Lie
10. 17 SepThe Theorist, the Tundra, & the Forbidden Crystal
11. 15 SepThe Last Word
12. 14 SepTGIPF Guest Post: Upstairs, Downstairs
13. 13 SepAhhhh…autumn
14. 12 SepThe Ill Effects of Urban Living
15. 11 SepKitchen Catalysts
16. 10 SepWant to Erase Fear Memories? Put Down the Booze, Pick Up the Pot.
17. 8 SepThe Last Word
18. 7 SepI Saw Them Standing There
19. 6 SepThe Sooner You Make It Yours, the Better
20. 5 SepAbstruse Goose: Supernova
21. 4 SepHow Kid Culture Tells our Children Lies and Destroys the Future of Science
22. 3 SepRedux: Scientists’ Slippage
23. 1 SepThe Last Word

August 2012

1. 31 AugThe Oracle and the Monkey
2. 30 AugThe Baijiu Bender
3. 29 AugGuest Post: Guilt & Shame & Climate Change
4. 28 AugAbstruse Goose: The Creation, part 3
5. 27 AugTop 3 Reasons to Stop Fretting About Being an Old Dad
6. 25 AugThe Last Word
7. 24 AugTGIPF: Penis in My Head
8. 22 AugReview: Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
9. 21 AugEgg-ceptionally Bad
10. 20 AugTopsy-Turvy
11. 18 AugThe Last Word
12. 17 AugScissor Sisters
13. 16 AugAbstruse Goose: Astrobiologists & the Perpetual Happy Hour
14. 15 AugThe Mix-Up that Ended the World
15. 14 AugAnother Cheater Confesses
16. 13 AugGuest Post: That Eternal Question
17. 11 AugThe Last Word
18. 10 AugTGIPF: Slug Sex Redux
19. 9 AugSkeletons in the Closet
20. 8 AugSCUBA Diving through the Endless Martian Desert
21. 7 AugLeft Turn
22. 6 AugReview of an Old Book Unjustly Forgotten
23. 4 AugThe Last Word
24. 3 AugTGIPF: Sex When You Can’t Hang On
25. 2 AugWhat Americans Don’t Get About the Brain’s Critical Period
26. 1 AugChop Like A Girl

July 2012

1. 31 JulCan cheaters repent?
2. 30 JulGalápagos Redux: When Is It OK to Kill Goats?
3. 28 JulThe Last Word
4. 27 JulTGIPF: The Bed Bug and His Violent Penis
5. 25 JulAbstruse Goose: A Walk on Mars
6. 24 JulUnraveling the left brain/right brain theory
7. 23 JulGalápagos Monday: The People Problem
8. 21 JulThe Last Word
9. 20 JulHiggs This, Boson That
10. 19 JulLearning from the Tubeworm
11. 18 JulGuest Post: Recycling the Seasons
12. 17 JulScience Metaphors (cont.): Sub-Grid Physics
13. 16 JulGalápagos Monday: When Conservation Means Killing
14. 14 JulThe Last Word
15. 13 JulTGIPF: What the Baculum Said
16. 12 JulThe mundaneness of science
17. 11 JulAbstruse Goose: On Writing
18. 10 JulThe Ballad of Brother Koch and Tiananmen Sid
19. 9 JulGalápagos Monday: The Sad Sex Life of Lonesome George
20. 7 JulThe Last Word
21. 6 JulDirty, dirty electricity
22. 4 JulSupplements: Something Smells Fishy
23. 3 JulYou’re Not as Happy as You Think You Are, Behavioral Scientists Report
24. 2 JulGalápagos Monday: World Within Itself
25. 1 JulLast Word Not Forthcoming

June 2012

1. 29 JunTGIPF: Iceland’s Phallological Museum
2. 28 JunSummer of Smoke
3. 27 JunThe Bomb Was the Easy Case
4. 26 JunBrave New Worlds
5. 25 JunGalápagos Monday: Southern Inhospitality
6. 23 JunThe Last Word
7. 21 JunAn Abstemious Home
8. 20 JunGuest Post: Reinventing the Wheel
9. 19 JunTo hell with grass
10. 18 JunGalápagos Monday: Lynn’s Tortoises
11. 16 JunThe Last Word
12. 15 JunFatherhood: From Here to Eternity
13. 14 JunThe Mystery of the (Not) Missing Fathers
14. 13 JunFatherhood: Trying to Raise a Tomboy Princess
15. 12 JunFatherhood: The men, the mountains, and the lessons of life
16. 12 JunFatherhood: The Outline of a Man
17. 10 JunFatherhood: Father’s Day Week
18. 9 JunThe Last Word
19. 8 JunJune Gloom
20. 7 JunPortrait of the Archaeologist as Young Artist
21. 6 JunStare Down
22. 5 JunGuest Post: Make Me Feel Something, Please
23. 4 JunThe Invasivore’s Dilemma
24. 2 JunThe Last Word
25. 1 JunWomen’s Work

May 2012

1. 31 MayA Worm Breeds in Brooklyn
2. 30 MayAbstruse Goose: The Infinite Canvas
3. 29 MayIgnorance: The Elevator Speech
4. 26 MayThe Last Word
5. 25 MayLonely Abalone
6. 24 MayWhy I Blog
7. 23 MayMorel Madness
8. 22 MayWhy the eclipse mattered.
9. 21 MayHappy Birthday to Us Yay
10. 19 MayThe Last Word
11. 18 MayNo Exceptions! None! Nowhere! Never! (Or not.)
12. 17 MayTurning Wolves into Hounds
13. 16 MayGuest Post: Do I Write? Or Do I Tweet?
14. 15 MaySaving Time
15. 14 MayHarry Baig & the Electronic Battlefield
16. 12 MayThe Last Word
17. 11 MayMotherhood: Immaculate gestation
18. 10 MayMotherhood: Two for One
19. 9 MayMotherhood: never is ok
20. 8 MayMotherhood: Yes We Did (Twice)
21. 7 MayMotherhood: Indecison 2012
22. 5 MayThe Last Word
23. 4 MayCaviar for the Dead
24. 3 MayThe Flaming Teapot Dilemma
25. 2 MayScience: The Never Ending Adventure!
26. 1 MayGuest Post: Notes on Planning Ahead

April 2012

1. 30 AprGuest Post: More Chemists Should Talk About Space Dinosaurs
2. 28 AprThe Last Word
3. 27 AprEat Drink Mammalogist Woman
4. 26 AprWatching the Watchers
5. 25 AprThe Impasse: When the “truth wins” assumption fails.
6. 24 AprTick Tock
7. 23 AprGeneration Anthropocene: Podcasting at the dawn of a new era
8. 21 AprThe Last Word
9. 20 AprThe Secret Weapon
10. 18 AprTrust no one, and other lessons I learned from physics reporters
11. 17 Aprtl;dr — a manifesto
12. 14 AprThe Last Word
13. 13 AprThe Springtime of Robins
14. 12 AprWhat’s In a Number
15. 11 AprRedux: A Catholic Saint and an Aztec God
16. 10 AprSpoetry
17. 9 AprHear No Evil
18. 7 AprThe Last Word
19. 6 AprWhat the ‘limits of DNA’ story reveals about the challenges of science journalism in the ‘big data’ age
20. 5 AprSnail Season: The San Fran Remix
21. 4 AprCensorship at the Great Firewall
22. 3 AprAn Instrument in the Shape of a Woman
23. 2 AprSnail Season

March 2012

1. 31 MarThe Last Word
2. 30 MarAbstruse Goose: Dangerous
3. 29 MarCorrecting Hollywood Science: The Microexpressions of Mike Daisey Edition
4. 28 MarLook Me in the Eye and Lie
5. 27 MarThe Compulsion to Count
6. 24 MarThe Last Word
7. 23 MarDoes the world really need more science journalism? Matter says yes, and thousands agree
8. 22 MarFamily Ties
9. 21 MarInternal monologue: Mike Daisey and the predictability of lies
10. 20 MarThe Lost Story of Madre de Dios
11. 19 MarGet off my lawn
12. 17 MarThe Last Word
13. 16 MarPsychiatry without psychiatrists, in a tsunami’s wake
14. 15 MarMarilyn Hagerty’s Fleeting Fame
15. 14 MarIn Search of the Secret Garden
16. 13 MarAbstruse Goose: Fairy Tale
17. 10 MarThe Last Word
18. 9 MarGuest Post: Continuity and Deep Time
19. 7 MarFruit Fly Walks into a Bar . . .
20. 6 MarNew Person of LWON: Cameron Walker
21. 6 MarEven a Worm Will Turn
22. 5 MarSurveying the tree of life, with envy (Or, why can’t a boy be more like a … copepod?)
23. 3 MarThe Last Word
24. 2 MarLeaving a Mark
25. 1 MarInto the Big Empty

February 2012

1. 29 FebI don’t know why the caged girl screams
2. 28 FebRedux: The Embalmer’s Fingerprints
3. 27 FebAbstruse Goose: Red Letter Date
4. 25 FebThe Last Word
5. 24 FebFitting In
6. 23 FebThere are two primary types of scientist (science music, part II)
7. 22 FebCrying Shame
8. 21 FebMatter In the Universe, At Present
9. 20 FebEvolve or Die
10. 18 FebThe Last Word
11. 17 FebThe Woman Who Discovered the Key to Measuring the Universe
12. 16 FebIt’s Memorex. Really!
13. 15 FebHorgan, Hayden, and the Last Word on Warfare
14. 14 FebLwon love or lwove
15. 13 FebAbstruse Goose: 3 a.m.
16. 10 FebTrivial Pursuit
17. 9 FebBetter Living Through Electrochemistry
18. 8 FebThe real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
19. 7 FebSperm Waves
20. 6 FebPets, Prisoners, and Personhood
21. 3 FebThe Science of Mysteries: Shock, Trauma, and the First Real War
22. 2 FebLife without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment
23. 1 FebWhat beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2)

January 2012

1. 31 JanEven though I no longer plan to be a biologist… (science music part I)
2. 30 JanHumanity Under Attack: The Story of Morgellons
3. 27 JanA Reason to Stay
4. 26 JanWhen is it time to revise our story?
5. 25 JanAbstruse Goose: The Sliver of Perception
6. 24 JanSix Million and Counting
7. 23 JanDry Spells
8. 19 JanThe Problem with Patient Zero
9. 18 JanNight terrors
10. 17 JanMaking a Renaissance
11. 16 JanGuest Post: The Scientist in the Garden
12. 13 JanAbstruse Goose: Rear Window
13. 12 JanTrash, Recycling and the Heartbreaking Lessons of YouTube Ethnography
14. 11 JanInside the World of Poverty
15. 10 JanSeeing What We Want to See
16. 9 JanGuest Post: What a Five-Generation Study Reveals About the Scars of Disadvantage
17. 6 JanThe Lorax in the Anthropocene
18. 4 JanThe Seven Deadly Sins: Anger
19. 3 JanThe Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

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December 2011

1. 30 DecThe seven deadly sins: Lust
2. 29 DecThe Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
3. 28 DecThe Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
4. 27 DecThe Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
5. 26 DecBiologist Michael Soule on the Seven Deadly Sins
6. 22 Dec2011 Houdini Awards
7. 21 DecThe Science of Mysteries: Watch Where You Fall In
8. 20 DecAbsinthe and the Corpse Reviver
9. 19 DecGuest Post: Oldest Rocks Could Weigh A Man Down
10. 16 Dec2011 Science Quiz: The Answers!
11. 15 DecAnd the Winners Is
12. 14 DecGuest Post: the Nature of Octopuses
13. 13 DecAutopsy of an Aspen
14. 12 Dec2011: The Science Quiz
15. 9 DecWaiting for Dynamo
16. 8 DecLet’s stop pretending we give a damn about climate change.
17. 7 DecGuest Post: Two Malarias
18. 5 DecSynthetic biology and weapons of war
19. 2 DecGuest Post: Why the Secret to Losing Weight and Staying Young Won’t be Found in a Pill
20. 1 DecAbstruse Goose: Stop the Massacre

November 2011

1. 30 NovPro Tip: Don’t Fall in the Thames
2. 29 NovBreaking Through
3. 28 NovIt’s Not (Always) About the Lorax
4. 25 NovBlack Friday and Dirty Gold
5. 24 NovScience Metaphors (cont.): Degeneracy
6. 22 NovHow many victims are there?
7. 21 NovGuest Post: the Monsters of Navajoland
8. 17 NovKrill Thrill: ‘Happy Feet’ and the end of woodland dominance
9. 16 NovLung Cancer: Replacing the Blunderbuss with a Stiletto
10. 15 NovMilwaukee Ads Condemn Co-sleeping
11. 14 NovAbstruse Goose: Tempus Edax Rerum
12. 11 NovThe Guys Talk
13. 10 NovDo readers grasp nuance?
14. 9 NovMaking a Better Heart
15. 8 NovAbstruse Goose
16. 7 NovWhat Would John McPhee Do?
17. 4 NovA Thousand Words
18. 3 NovAlcohol, Retinol and a 50-Year Quest for the Male Pill
19. 1 NovStill Just a Rat in a Cage

October 2011

1. 31 OctFamily Planning Made Entertaining
2. 28 OctTriassic Park
3. 27 OctIs That Guy Really, Really Smart?
4. 26 OctYou’ve got mail, you idiot!
5. 25 OctSteve Jobs and the Limits of Sequencing
6. 24 OctThe Speciation of Science Journalists
7. 21 OctFloater
8. 19 OctWhat Makes a Pun Funny?
9. 18 OctDining: A Greener Shade of Crow
10. 17 OctAbstruse Goose: Partners
11. 14 OctOn Culture and Biological Clocks
12. 13 Oct“Reading Minds” with fMRI
13. 12 OctBed Bug Bugaboo
14. 11 OctThe Children’s Hour
15. 10 OctFrom Freud to Feynman: Curious Thoughts of Curious Minds
16. 7 OctDr. Jim Beam, DDS
17. 6 OctBreast Cancer’s false narrative.
18. 5 OctScience vs. Tradition
19. 4 OctNews Flash!
20. 4 OctLocal Food: Appetite for Infrastructure
21. 3 OctWwgd

September 2011

1. 30 SepGroundwater and Gravity
2. 29 SepThe Middles of Nowhere
3. 28 SepHelp Wanted: DIY Dinosaurs
4. 27 SepGuest Post: Not So Fast
5. 26 SepGuest Post: Should We Clone Endangered Species?
6. 22 SepConsensual Hallucination
7. 21 SepEthical eating: why this tree-hugging former vegetarian is learning to hunt
8. 20 SepGuest Post: Transformed by the Flames
9. 19 SepAvoiding “Contagion”
10. 16 SepHilda and Thomas
11. 15 SepThe future of money
12. 14 SepDear Mom
13. 13 SepPlain Unfair
14. 12 SepGuest Post: The Lion Counters
15. 9 SepFight Club
16. 8 SepBracing: A military brat remembers 9/11/01
17. 7 SepNatural Hazards in the Age of Social Media
18. 6 SepThe Calligraphers and the Apple
19. 5 SepGuest Post: Microscope, DIY, 3 Minutes
20. 2 SepExo-Freakshows
21. 1 SepGuest Post: Part of Me Forever

August 2011

1. 31 AugA botched battle in the vaccine safety wars
2. 30 AugWhat’s in a Name
3. 29 AugGuest Post: Wonder TK
4. 26 AugThe King Must Die
5. 25 AugBody and Soul
6. 24 AugIs passion for science a heritable trait?
7. 22 AugFound Photos
8. 19 AugAn Arctic Land without Its Top Predator
9. 18 AugDose Response
10. 17 AugScience Metaphors (cont.): Resonance
11. 16 AugAbstruse Goose: A Brief History of Us
12. 15 AugMy mother, on the bleeding edge of health care reform
13. 12 AugGuest Post: Stranger on the Porch
14. 11 AugThe Last Word on Nothing Jr. Edition, Part Two
15. 10 AugCorrecting Hollywood Science: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Edition
16. 9 AugFungus among us — How I learned to love taxonomy
17. 8 AugOn anglerfish, scrub jays, and the menageries of childhood
18. 5 AugThe Poet Bernoulli
19. 4 AugBang? Whimper? Whatever.
20. 3 AugThe wisdom of a summer afternoon
21. 2 AugAbstruse Goose: Bees – Part 2
22. 1 AugGuest Post: Evil Ivy

July 2011

1. 29 JulPulling the Primary
2. 28 JulThe Last Word on Nothing, Junior Edition
3. 26 JulTEDGlobal
4. 25 JulGuest Post: Jumping Spiders in Love
5. 22 JulThe War on Potatoes
6. 21 JulAbstruse Goose: Bees – Part I
7. 20 JulHow to build a better conference
8. 19 JulThe Four Types of Scientists
9. 18 JulGuest Post: A geologist and a creationist walk into a store
10. 15 JulPaying No Attention to Bimodality
11. 14 JulNot One More Winter in the Tipi, Honey
12. 13 JulDrawing the Line Somewhere, Part 2
13. 12 JulDrawing the Line Somewhere, Part 1
14. 11 JulGuest Post: Coming of Age in a Trash Forest
15. 8 JulYou Don’t Live in the Twitterverse: a Plea to Ground Yourself in Place
16. 7 JulThe baby brain revolution arrives – not a moment too soon
17. 6 JulVoyeurism and Facebook
18. 5 JulAbstruse Goose: Math Doesn’t Suck
19. 4 JulThe Benefits of War?
20. 1 JulAvastin and the Power of Hope

June 2011

1. 30 JunGuest Post: Drought in the Garden of the Gods
2. 29 JunThe Crow Knows Your Nose
3. 28 JunHow to Beat a Closed System
4. 27 JunWhat do you get when you put a terrorist inside of a brain scanner?
5. 24 JunSez Who?
6. 23 JunA Royal Pain
7. 22 JunGuest Post: Remembering Horace Judson
8. 21 JunDelectable Dirt
9. 20 JunSynthetic biology: Parlor trick, or proof of concept?
10. 17 JunIn Case of Rapture, Head for Poughkeepsie
11. 16 JunNew Person of LWON: Michelle Nijhuis
12. 16 JunCould we make conferences less sucky?
13. 15 JunNew Person of LWON: Christie Aschwanden
14. 15 JunAutism’s Plot
15. 14 JunWhy Don’t We Know More about Our Ancient Past?
16. 13 JunDiagnosing Grief
17. 9 JunSecrets of British gravitas revealed!
18. 8 JunPsychiatry Comes of Age
19. 7 JunWhy Circumcision Protects Against HIV
20. 3 JunGiving Up on Aliens. Or Not.
21. 1 JunThe Inca Empire’s Afghanistan

May 2011

1. 31 MayA Tech Journalism Cheat Sheet
2. 30 MayThe Stuff of Hot
3. 27 MayGuest Post: Lies and the Lying Bicyclist Who Tells Them
4. 26 MayArsenic, RNA, and the unpleasant aftertaste of hype
5. 25 MayThe
6. 24 MayAbstruse Goose: Newton #2
7. 23 MayNo More Clock-Punching
8. 20 MayBlammo! Yay! Lists!
9. 19 MayObesity and Falling off the Edge of the Known World
10. 18 MayDrugging Our Way Out of the HIV Epidemic
11. 17 MayGuest Post: Invisible Mother
12. 16 MayAbstruse Goose: Newton #1
13. 13 MayGetting Under a Mummy’s Skin
14. 11 MayScience Metaphors (cont.): Running Open Loop
15. 10 MayBattling the Beetles
16. 9 MayOur biochemical romance: Osama bin Laden and DNA
17. 6 MayBad Blood
18. 5 MayThe Slings of Outrageous Fortune
19. 4 MayIt is now safe to move about the cabin
20. 3 MayThe Not-So-Feeble Frédéric Chopin
21. 2 MayAn empathy gap so big, you could march an army through it

April 2011

1. 29 AprSleuthing around the Great Death-Pit
2. 28 AprThe Long Hello
3. 27 AprFaust, My Grandfather, & the Laser Guide Star
4. 26 AprAbstruse Goose: Over-thinking the Problem
5. 25 AprPound for Pound
6. 22 AprOne Cup of Tea, Two Cups of Bull Honkey
7. 21 AprMeth and Milkshakes
8. 20 AprFrom Brazil, a surprising breath of good forest news
9. 19 AprTelling the whole story on stem cells
10. 18 AprThe Little Roller Girl Who Could
11. 15 AprIndiana Jones and the Neanderthal’s Tooth
12. 14 AprPolio: No End in Sight
13. 13 AprGuest Post: Limestone, the Civil War’s Great Equalizer
14. 11 AprBad Actors + Science Metaphor (cont)
15. 8 AprHow the Other Half Lived
16. 6 AprWhispers of forgotten history, traced in bacterial filigree
17. 5 AprAbstruse Goose: Moment of Clarity 2
18. 4 AprMy Coffee Problem
19. 1 AprThe myth of choice in medicine

March 2011

1. 31 MarThree Stooges vs. Revelation
2. 30 MarA Dictator’s Rule
3. 29 MarBrooklyn Takes its (Unnecessary) Medicine
4. 28 MarContamination in Goiânia
5. 25 MarNew Person of LWON: Sally Adee
6. 25 MarOrchids and the Scent of Death
7. 23 MarDreams of Resilience and Bikini Atoll
8. 22 MarBarcoding Bushmeat
9. 21 MarSeeking clarity for the toughest decisions of all
10. 18 MarNew Person of LWON: Erika Check Hayden
11. 18 MarStop the Presses. Please.
12. 17 MarSearching for Jim Gray
13. 16 MarMapping Baltimore’s Addiction
14. 15 MarCorvid Cousins
15. 14 MarGoogle in Our Hour of Need
16. 11 MarAbstruse Goose: Moment of Clarity 1
17. 10 MarChristchurch, Hardtack and the Myth of Earthquake Preparedness
18. 9 MarAn Argument About Crows
19. 8 MarWho’s Afraid of Virginia’s Genes?
20. 7 MarAncient Forms of Biological Warfare
21. 4 MarTalking Universe Blues, Part 3
22. 3 MarThe Emperor and the Parasite
23. 2 MarGuest Post: When Your Evil Internet Twin is You

February 2011

1. 28 FebCorridors of the Rainforest
2. 25 FebTalking Universe Blues, Part 2
3. 24 FebA drop of treasure, lost in an ocean of debt
4. 23 FebLong, Tough Road to Stroke Recovery
5. 22 FebAbstruse Goose: Mmmm, Evolution
6. 21 FebWhat’s in a Footprint?
7. 18 FebTalking Universe Blues, Part 1
8. 17 FebMessage: Re-sign Up for RSS Feed
9. 17 FebScience Metaphors (cont.): Standard Candle
10. 15 FebNew Person of LWON: Jessa Gamble
11. 15 FebAbstruse Goose: High-Energy Biology
12. 14 FebHappy Valentine’s Day, Charles Darwin. There Is No Proof for Your Heresy.
13. 11 FebGoogle Earth and Guantánamo Bay
14. 10 FebOut of the Circus, Under the Microscope
15. 9 FebRogue Planets
16. 8 FebTalk to the Animals
17. 7 FebUp the Amazon
18. 4 FebMr. Sandman’s Diet Plan
19. 3 FebMuppet Messaging
20. 2 FebOh no! Not another Iraq
21. 1 FebRailroads, brownfields and the healing power of vegetable oil

January 2011

1. 31 JanThis Is Not About Climate Change
2. 27 JanIn Defense of Hippie Cigarettes
3. 26 JanGuest Post: Bottle Insouciance
4. 25 JanAbstruse Goose: Band of Brothers
5. 24 JanFreeman Dyson: It’s Complicated
6. 21 JanThe Battle Brewing over Tutankhamun’s Treasures
7. 20 JanPenguin Study Sparks a Tiff (of sorts)
8. 19 JanLady Crickets Can Be Cougars, Too
9. 18 JanUnknown Unknowns
10. 17 JanEulogy for Jim’s Camera
11. 14 JanTempest in a Garbage Patch
12. 13 JanVikings, Lightning and Bad Portents
13. 12 JanEvidence-based Medicine?
14. 11 JanScience Metaphors (cont.): Mantle Drag
15. 10 JanWhere Did All the Universe Go?
16. 7 JanBattles So Fierce, They Could Almost Be Human
17. 7 JanThe economics of extinction, one tuna at a time
18. 6 JanA New Year’s Diet: Mind Control
19. 4 JanA Pox on Your Hand
20. 3 JanA Long Vanished Waterworld
21. 3 JanUPDATE: New Person of LWON Indisposed

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December 2010

1. 31 DecNew Person of LWON
2. 30 DecThe Secrets in a Neanderthal’s Smile
3. 29 DecQuestion of the Year: What is Life, Anyway?
4. 28 DecAbstruse Goose: Convergent Subsequence
5. 27 DecWe, the Planethunters!
6. 24 DecFrankincense, Myrrh & Magi
7. 23 DecMouse tail opens, shuts global insurance case
8. 23 DecNotice: Smart Virginia
9. 22 DecWaking the Dead
10. 21 DecFirst comes love, then comes the rubella test?
11. 20 DecTonight: Blood Moon
12. 17 DecBMJ’s Bizarre and Boisterous Christmas Issue
13. 16 DecAn Astronomer and a Theorist Walk Into a Bar
14. 15 DecThe Art of the Insect
15. 14 DecBuried Violence: the Ouachita Sleepers
16. 13 DecEmperor Hadrian and the Boy He Loved
17. 10 DecSpooks, Wikileaks and Archaeology
18. 9 DecBold and Italicize Your Way to a Better Memory
19. 8 DecAG: End Times for a Scientist’s Career
20. 7 DecSticky Business
21. 6 DecSmall Problems for Astronomers
22. 3 DecThe Truth Is Out There: The Planet X Files
23. 2 DecBad Things Happen
24. 1 DecAll I want for Christmas . . .

November 2010

1. 30 NovAbstruse Goose, Stardust, & Entropy
2. 29 NovPalm Revelations
3. 26 NovBiological Astronomy
4. 25 NovOn Turkey Legs
5. 23 NovAbstruse Goose & Maxwell’s Demon
6. 22 NovHogwarts for Archaeologists
7. 19 NovScience Metaphors (cont.): Sigma & Faith
8. 18 NovPartying, Drinking Beer, and Siring Civilization
9. 17 NovJust Say No, No, No
10. 16 NovThrough the Looking Glass
11. 15 NovREAL Mathematicians Unhindered by Laws of Physics
12. 12 NovDarkness and Light in Ancient Egypt
13. 11 NovWithout Learn’d Astronomers; Or, Walt, Shut Up
14. 10 NovMust Come Down
15. 9 NovThe Fly, Redux
16. 8 NovAbstruse Goose: A Great time To Be Alive
17. 5 NovThe Brothel, the Madam and the Doctor
18. 4 NovSharing Microbes (The Hard Way)
19. 3 NovThe Language(s) of Time
20. 2 NovOld Weather & Citizen Science
21. 1 NovThe Sound of Science

October 2010

1. 29 OctFeeling Feverish? Big Brother Already Knows
2. 28 Oct1 Volcano+1 Big Storm=35 Million Salmon
3. 27 OctStars Like Flies
4. 26 OctBlue Light Special
5. 25 OctAsk Mr. Cosmology
6. 22 OctIs Organized Crime Cashing In at Pompeii?
7. 21 OctLies about Astronomy
8. 20 OctChronic Fatigue Controversy Continues
9. 19 OctNapoleon’s legacy: ashes, tombs and DNA
10. 18 OctThe Antisocial Network
11. 15 OctThe Newest of the People of LWON
12. 15 OctThe Ladder of Incompetence
13. 14 OctIt Started with a Cat Bite
14. 13 OctThe Observer: John Huchra, 1948 – 2010
15. 12 OctNot Tonight, Dear, I’ve Lost My Mucus
16. 11 OctAbstruse Goose & Popular Science
17. 8 OctThe Immense Pleasure of Glass
18. 7 OctOne Roman Helmet, Going, Going, Gone
19. 7 OctScience Metaphors (cont.): Metastable
20. 6 OctThe Brain’s Dark Energy
21. 5 OctFlu Season
22. 4 OctAnother New Person of LWON
23. 4 OctSpuds, Spuds, Glorious Spuds
24. 1 OctThe Man Who Cannot Die

September 2010

1. 30 SepStress Factors
2. 29 SepThe Newest of the People of LWON
3. 28 SepAbstruse Goose: Many Worlds
4. 27 SepPeople Standing in Lines
5. 24 SepChristie’s and the Roman Helmet
6. 23 SepIn Defense of Sloths
7. 22 SepOutright Gifts
8. 21 SepAbstruse Goose: Life Paths Integrated Over Time
9. 20 SepSave the Wild Tigers
10. 17 SepAstroPorn: the Great Carina Nebula
11. 16 SepA Poisonous Beauty Among the Samurai and Us
12. 15 SepStrawberries in Space
13. 14 SepInternet Astronomy
14. 13 SepAbstruse Goose & Some Urgent Questions
15. 10 SepThe Salmon Forest
16. 9 SepWhy Canada Doesn’t Boil
17. 8 SepLethal Weapon, Cretaceous Style
18. 7 SepGreat Science Classics
19. 6 SepWork Stoppage
20. 3 SepBug/Blog/The Bunfight Continues
21. 2 SepScience Metaphors (cont.): Sublime
22. 1 SepThe Latest from Expedition Titanic

August 2010

1. 31 AugA Glorious Year for Crop Circles and Crop Rectangles
2. 30 AugAbstruse Goose: Make a Wish
3. 27 AugIVF: A Great Investment
4. 26 AugMaking a Really Big Galaxy
5. 25 AugAbstruse Goose: Molecule
6. 24 AugStudying All the Things in Infinity
7. 23 AugPerseids against the Milky Way, Sigh
8. 20 AugNothing New Under the Sun
9. 19 AugCalling 911 in the Maya World
10. 18 AugUs, From Far Away
11. 17 AugBug/Blog/Bunfight
12. 16 AugMore Evidence of Awesome/Revolting World of Nature
13. 13 AugIn Defense of Insects
14. 11 AugMore Parasites, More Ickiness
15. 10 AugAbstruse Goose: the Creation, Part 2
16. 9 AugEvolution & Revulsion
17. 6 AugMonty Python Goes to Gladiator School
18. 5 AugThe Man with the (Dragon) Tattoo
19. 4 AugHow Green is Your Wedding?
20. 3 AugNewly-Evolved Hybrid
21. 2 AugAbstruse Goose: Creation

July 2010

1. 30 JulHenry VIII Meet Julia Child
2. 29 JulAlien Planets & Astronomers Behaving Like the Rest of Us
3. 28 JulVikings in the Canadian Arctic
4. 27 JulAbstruse Goose: Computer Programming 101
5. 26 JulSwept Up Off the Cutting Room Floor
6. 23 JulHow Not to Be Blown to Smithereens
7. 22 JulHeather’s earthquakes vs. Ann’s: choose Heather’s
8. 21 JulThe Tomb She Calls a Museum
9. 20 JulAbstruse Goose: 30,001 BC
10. 19 JulShrimp on Prozac
11. 14 JulBig Bang Big Boom: out-and-out brilliant
12. 13 JulA Summer Science Poem
13. 12 JulAbstruse Goose: 30,000 BC
14. 9 JulGetting It Wrong, Not Minding One Bit
15. 8 JulWorker Bees of the World, Unite
16. 7 JulScience Metaphors (cont.): Critical Opalescence
17. 6 JulI Spy
18. 5 JulAbstruse Goose: Natural vs. Artifical
19. 2 JulQueen of the Forest Canopy
20. 1 JulThe Wizard in the Valley of the Kings

June 2010

1. 30 JunBeauty & Charm, Before & After
2. 28 JunFear the Pigeons
3. 25 JunThe Rites of Summer
4. 24 JunMath, Artists, and Crop Circles
5. 23 JunAbstruse Goose: The Sum of All Knowledge
6. 22 JunAstronomy’s Ice Cream
7. 21 JunOur Ancient Lethal Traveling Companion
8. 18 JunBe Stylish, Save the Planet
9. 17 JunAbstruse Goose
10. 16 JunTaking Cosmology Too Seriously
11. 15 JunThe Melancholy Female and the Liberated Cow
12. 14 JunGossamer Wings and the Alchemy of Flight
13. 11 JunPrimates, Birds, and the Origin of Language
14. 10 JunStonehenge Through Gandalf’s Eyes
15. 6 JunThe Mouse Shall Lie Down with the Rat
16. 3 JunOf Human Sacrifice and Rubber Balls
17. 1 JunThe New Cincinnati

May 2010

1. 31 MayNew Potato News
2. 28 MayEvery Dot Is a Galaxy
3. 25 MayScience Metaphors (cont.): Violent Relaxation
4. 20 MayFlesh-Eating Algae