Phew. Another year almost over and it's been a really good one. This time last year, I was still blogging at Wordpress, and it was only in late February that I beamed aboard the mighty ScienceBlog mothership. It's been a great experience and all in all, I've managed to rack up about 190 posts on new research (excluding reposts and random stuff), over 1,500 comments and over 400,000 page views in a year. Elsewhere, I published a book based on this blog, I wrote about 2% of another book called "Defining Moments in Science", and I wrote three features and several news pieces for New Scientist.
And given all that, it's nice to take some time for reflection and with that in mind, I'm going to continue a tradition that I started last year - choosing some of the favourite stories from 2008. This list has no pretensions to be a catalogue of the year's biggest stories or its most important breakthroughs. It's just what I personally deemed to be the most interesting and just plain, downright cool.
So, without further ado, here are my picks. Once again, a massive thanks to anyone who read, commented on, or linked to this site over the last year. I hope you'll join me for 2009.
Animal behaviour
