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Angry by Choice , The Allotrope , The Astronomist , The Biology Files , C6-H12-O6 , Catalogue of Organisms / Variety of Life , The Curious Wavefunction , Disease Prone , Epiphenom , Games with Words , Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience , The Greenhouse , Lab Rat , Labs , The Large Picture Blog , Plektix , Rule of 6ix , Sex, Genes & Evolution , Skeptic Wonder . Simply add "/view" to the end of any FoS blog URL (i.e. http://lpb.fieldofscience.com /view ) for a fresh look at your favorite FoS blog.

Grab the script and drop it in your sidebar for a constant feed of the latest hand picked space news and images. While I'm not one to self-promote, I really must confess to being stupid good at what it is that this widget does. <script src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/pps/imagebadge_1.3.js"> { "pipe_id":"137778abf0cc259378c22ff19f34d263", "hideHeader":true, "img_params" : {maxitems:15, autoscroll:true, autoscrolldelay:10} } </script>

You may have noticed our tribe has grown in November. New to our ranks: Sex, Genes & Evolution , The Curious Wavefunction and Games with Words . We grew so much in fact that we outgrew feedburner. Subscribers to the combined feed may have noticed the interruption in service. Good news, however, is the issue has been resolved and the combined feed is back up and running. I'd like to also make a stink over a new way to follow FoS -- via badge . Lastly, since I don't suppose it is necessarily obvious and I realize it requires an expertise than isn't reasonable to expect, a bit more about F ield o f R eddit. To begin, it exists in two places: http://fos.fieldofscience.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/FoS/ The ideas behind FoR are: 1. That the so inclined readers of FoS use it as a forum. Regrettably, not enough readers just yet to property test the viability of this implementation. But, there it is nonetheless. 2. To add a little dynamic, crowd sourced content to the front pa...

Introducing The Large Picture Blog . Inspired by The Big Picture , the LPB is also an example of how an individual blog's unique design, theme, character, function, etc. can be incorporated into Field of Science. In addition to the wider main section to accommodate large pictures, other hacks include a label cloud (which I've placed below the header and will come into its own over time) and a » More Pictures... link which allows for a featured picture to be displayed on the main blog with a full set of pictures to be displayed when the post is selected. I also added a unique favicon which replaces the default fos question mark favicon . Another note regarding how an FOS blog could differ from a blog on blogspot is the url possibilities. lpb.blogspot.com was not available, so I created LPD at http://largepictureblog.blogspot.com/ . Clicking on that url, notice how the blogspot address automatically forwards you to the lpb.fieldofscience .com address (this is what happens whe...

"Word cloud" using Wordle . I borrowed select text from the Wikipedia article for Fields of Science , added a bunch of Field of Science 's to the mix as well as increased the number of instances of major categories of sciences. From there I pasted it into the Wordle text field and hit go. I also had to select Do Not Remove Common Words under the Language menu in order for "of" to show up, and having done the initial setup in a Word document, I knew the quantity of Maximum words... (418) under the Layout menu. My two favored fonts were Steelfish and Superclarendon Black , and I ended up selecting between the two until I got a result I could live with. Trouble is, once you get going, it's hard to stop, thinking the perfect word cloud is always just one variable change away. Anyway, too much fun, mildly addictive, and I recommend it to anyone. Should you need a reason, consider following my lead, only with your own unique spin and the aim of creating a hea...