Faithful readers, welcome to our new digs here at Discover. And stalwart fans of Discover, welcome to Cosmic Variance. We are thrilled to hear that our change in color scheme portends the Death of the Blogosphere. Who knew we had such power? Blogs are yesterday's news, anyway, but we'll putter gamely on for a while, just to keep up appearances. To any new readers who might wander by, feel free to poke around a bit to get a feeling for the place; the archives are accessible from the sidebar, and we also have an About page. This is an extremely bloggy blog, in the sense that we are guided by whatever we want to talk about at the moment, rather than any externally-imposed idea of what should be talked about. Everyone should read one of the following two paragraphs, but not the other one:
One of the features of Cosmic Variance is that we are all working scientists, whose main activity involves doing research. We try to bring some of the excitement and inside scoop of the research process as it occurs. True, we change things up now and then with non-scientific posts, but that's the price you must pay to attract the eyeballs of the common folk; the meaty posts about the glory of Science will always be a mainstay (and you can even use equations!). One of the features of Cosmic Variance is that we are all working scientists, but we are also human beings. We try to highlight the human side of the scientific enterprise as we explore the wider world of ideas. True, there are occasional technical posts about some point of current scientific contention, but that's the price you must pay to keep your academic credibility; the playful, discursive, interdisciplinary excursions will always be the fun part of the blog.
Hope that makes everything clear. There may be some shaking-out process as we complete the transition over to the new site, so let us know if things work less effortlessly than usual. (Some of the last few comments might have been lost -- sorry about that.) We're happy to have found a new home.
