Science Sushi: 2013 in Review

It's that time of the year again where I look back and see what has happened over the past 365 days in the life of this blog. So far in 2013... ...I have posted 65 posts ...that received over five hundred thousand views ...from 207 countries/territories ...with 755 comments The most popular post of the year was my open letter to Discovery Channel for their terrible Megalodon fauxmentary that kicked off shark week, with its follow up not far behind. Second most popular was The Mythic Bite of the Komodo, explaining the venomous nature of these dangerous reptiles. Seaward posts fared well, with some of the top slots going to my critique of a BuzzFeed article, why dolphin-assisted births are a really, really bad idea, and yesterday's post on how dolphins might not be getting high on tetrodotoxin. Also on the list were posts about the evolutionary origins of allergies, ...