The mission of the Knight Science Journalism Tracker is to:

is to provide a broad sampling of the past day’s science news and, where possible, of news releases or other news tips related to publication of science news in the general circulation news media, mainly of the U.S.

For mere mortals like me it’s a great single source to find the most recent, interesting science news stories…

Remember when Alan Sokal published a gibberish paper in Social Text and people around the world proclaimed the death of postmodern literary theory and the exposure of the post-structuralist Emperor’s lack of clothes?

Now that MIT students have done the same thing in a scientific journal, I expect all those pathetic naysayers to join hands and proclaim the death of science the scientific method…

[ruminate sokal mit hoax]

I want to be an astronomer when I grow up. Here’s a good reason why.