The Kitchen Is Closing

My very first blog post was September 2008. A lot has changed since then—I started and completed a PhD program at the University of Hawaii (where I met my partner and now baby-daddy), did a post-doc, wrote one book (that you should really read—just ask Amazon or Smithsonian) and edited another (on science blogging!), and started a new full-time editing job with the YouTube science channel SciShow. And over those ten years, I have written more than 800 blog posts, my blog has gone from being called Observations of a Nerd to Science Sushi, and it's moved from Blogspot to Science Blogs to Scientific American to Discover—and now, it's making one last move. I started blogging because I wanted to share my passion for science with the world. And my posts have done that—they've also opened up new avenues for sharing my passions. I owe a lot to this online ...