To much deserved fanfare, Bora Zivkovic launched the new Scientific American blog network, featuring 47 blogs and some of the best writers around. Several personal favourites are now on the site and demand your attention including Jennifer Ouellette, Eric Michael Johnson, Jennifer Frazer, Hannah Waters, Lucas Brouwers, Kevin Zelnio, Charles Choi, Christie Wilcox, Darren Naish, SciCurious, Jason Goldman and more. All of this prompts PZ Myers to declare that “Scienceblogs.com is dead“.

“I am a feminist, because skeptics and atheists made me one,” says Rebecca Watson about the Richard Dawkins furore. If you haven’t caught up with this, read Rebecca’s post and John Rennie’s summary. It absolutely