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The 60-Second Science series was created with the intention of providing our audience with bite-size, consume-in-one-minute pieces of scientific coverage. This format has proved ideal for our podcasts, but we've missed the option to write longer news and opinion pieces for the blog. We also wanted a way to better highlight the themes that have emerged within the 60-Second Science blogs. The editors put their heads together and the final result is the introduction of five ScientificAmerican.com blog categories:

1. Observations: Opinions, Arguments & Analyses from the editors of Scientific American
2. Bering in Mind: A Research Psychologist's Curious Look at the Human Mind
3. Extinction Countdown: News and Research about Endangered Species from around the World
4. Solar at Home: The Trials, Tribulations and Rewards of Going Solar
5. Expeditions: Field Notes from the Far Reaches of Exploration

Each blog focuses on a distinct subject to provide readers with a more engaging reading experience. As ever, we invite community members to participate via the comment fields. We implore you to take a gander. (Perhaps start your journey with Scientific American Observations.)

We hope you enjoy our new blogs as much as we enjoy writing them.

Please note: The 60-Second Science blog will remain available as an archived section of the site, but it will no longer be updated. In order to continue service for RSS subscribers to 60-Second Science, news and opinion content from the Observations blog will be provided in its place.

8 Comments

1. 1. aaanouel 08:12 PM 10/16/09

   I don't like the idea of a main website no longer updated.
   
   I think you'd better redesign it as an Blog/Master or an Overview of all the blogs in reference. That way one could get to any of the different blogs by the Headlines (small descriptions of the articles) Links from only one main website. Each blogger should update it's own headlines to pull people into theirs.
   
   Commercially speaking: You're performing a suicide, wasting or trashing thousands of people visits that could be used in useful links, adds and commerce trade-able "clicks" (money). �You built the commercial store and then trashed it...?

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2. 2. aaanouel 08:18 PM 10/16/09

   For example. Look IMAGINOVA, they manage near 8 different websites and there are a lot of Links between them. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

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3. 3. laronai 07:04 AM 11/18/09

   Dear Sirs
   It used to be that the package where you sent me your magazines had, printed on it, the date when my subscription would expire. Now, "nous avons chang� tout cela", and the expiry date is nowhere to be found. I tried to access my account from your site on the Internet, to no avail: all the 3 options that you have do NOT recognize me as a subscriber. And the slot for "country" in the appropriate box lists only USA and Canada as options (I would imagine that you would have readers from all over the world...).
   Can you please advise me on how to proceed from here?? Can you please go back to the old (and better) system?
   Or at least send me a login and name with which I can access information?
   thank you
   a frustrated reader
   Nora R�nai/ Laura R�nai
   
   
   

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5. 5. patternizer 09:11 AM 6/15/10

   60-second science is a brilliant idea! What a great initiative to bring popular science to the masses!! Well done.
   
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   http://patternizer.wordpress.com

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