January 3, 2012

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Welcome back! The long holiday weekend is behind us and we're ready to tackle a new year.

I dug through our traffic statistics and put together a list of the Most Popular #SciAmBlogs Posts of 2011.

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While some bloggers were finishing their 2011 year-end reminiscences, other moved ahead, and already wrote cool new science posts:

- Kelly Oakes - Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline

- Christina Agapakis - The Essence of Taste

- Cassie Rodenberg - A drug year in review, 2011and5 alcohol-isms for New Year’s

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Cassie Rodenberg

- Scicurious - Walking or running efficiently, your locomotor muscles might not agree

- Rob Dunn - Your Appendix Could Save Your Life

- Michelle Clement - Video: The science of champagneandMemorable links from the second half of 2011

- Anna Kuchment - Building A (Real) Bridge to 2012

- Darren Naish - In case you forget, softshell turtles are insanely weird

- David Bressan - Accretionary Wedge #41: Memorable Geologic Event That You’ve Directly ExperiencedandHow to celebrate New Year’s Eve in style: Fun in a Fossil

- Jennifer Frazer - Nothing Here But a Hole in the Ocean . . .

- Katherine Harmon - Post-Conflict Libya and Iraq Should Now Wage War on Diabetes and Heart Disease

- Christie Wilcox - 2012 Resolution: The Girl That I Intend To Be

- S.E. Gould - Best Of Lab Rat 2011

- Princess Ojiaku - Singing Auld Lang Syne: SwM 2011 in review

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: A Year in Animal PhotosandHappy New Year!

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