Tabitha M. Powledge marks the end of the SciLogs blog network and quotes some of its orphans about what went wrong and what they plan to do with their blogs now: "The reason SciLogs is coming to an end is not terribly complicated. Spektrum took on this network of English-language blogs in hopes of broadening readership of its own German-language journals. Perhaps not surprisingly, the plan didn’t work. So, kaput." Also, Carl Zimmer's deep dive into his own genome.
July 16, 2016