A blogosphere initiative.

I’m happy to report that I’ve signed up to the Week of Science initiative from Just Science. What’s that? To quote the proposing blog post:

…we would like to propose a Week of Science, to begin on Monday, February 5, and end on Sunday, February 11. During that time each blogger should post about science only, with at least one post per day. Furthermore, issues which are favored by anti-scientific groups (creationism, global warming, etc.) should be either avoided, or discussed without reference to anti-scientific positions.

So what are the topics I’m going to be talking about? I have three ideas; in no particular order:

• What is parental genetic testing? That is, what is the science behind identifying biological parents?
• The science of information retrieval, which is the technical field of how search engines work.
• Epigenetics. An overview and some examples. I’m really looking forward to this one!

Post below with your suggestions, and check out the list of participating blogs.

[tags]science blogging[/tags]