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bldgblog.blogspot.com
An architectural blog from LA, full of ideas, speculation and superb pictures. Should computer hard drives be replaced by geology? Can buildings make you healthier? It’s all here.

SCIENCE

overcomingbias.com
A strange, very much out-there, two-man science blog. “We want to avoid, or at least minimise, the startling systematic mistakes that science is discovering.” In part bonkers, it is nevertheless a window on another world.

terrytao.wordpress.com
michaelnielsen.org/blog
Two maths blogs. Probably, you will barely understand a word. But what you do understand will excite and grip. Also, it’s just good to know this stuff is out there if you need it.

network.nature.com/blogs
A collection of blogs on the science journal Nature’s site. The writing can be prone to that whimsy and jollity to which scientists often resort when trying to be “accessible”. But, otherwise, a fantastically informative site. Where else could you read Cloud Computing: A New Standard Platform?

scienceblogs.com
This feisty portal hosts a 75-strong army of witty and qualified practitioners fighting at the front line of idiocy, bigotry and ignorance to achieve a science-savvy citizenry. Targets include assorted “utterly wrong” mainstream pundits.

dcscience.net
“The endarkenment” is the prime target for the irascible pharmacologist professor David Colquhoun. Quackery, the press and alternative medicine are high on the scorn list at his newly revamped blog.

planetary.org/blog
Carl Sagan co-founded the nonprofit Planetary Society, whose advisers include Buzz Aldrin, Ray Bradbury and Frank Drake. Here, he elaborates his own Drake Equation to calculate how many civilisations are out there. Emily Lakdawalla, the editor, ensures the blog stays down-to-earth.

newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience
Rucks invariably follow the twice-daily ruminative responses to topical events by journalists at the UK publication that sets discovery in its cultural context. Combat in the comment zones sees celebs and mortal bloggers outflank each other with disputatious nitpicking and sheer expertise.

POP

littlebootsmusic.co.uk/blog
The BBC reckons Victoria Hesketh — aka Little Boots — is the Sound of 2009. Her sweetly wide-eyed blog reveals the Blackpool girl inside the starmaker machinery of her soon-to-be popular songs. She’s been in America, making friends with Katy Perry, eating pancakes and confronting the country’s greatest failing: “They just can’t do tea.”

journal.davidbyrne.com
Byrne’s musings — on media ownership, Neanderthals and Bratz, say — have the tone of a kindly, globetrotting anthropologist uncle. He’s currently posting about Brazil, where he has dropped in on his mates Gilberto (Gil) and Caetano (Veloso). Click on the Radio icon, and you get a playlist to accompany the travelogue. Excelente!

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