Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

I’m trying to make sense of my Feedburner numbers

I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here are two looks at my subscriber numbers. The first chart starts on August 11, 2006, which is the first day I started blogging. The second chart starts on January 28, 2010, which is the first day of the spike in my Feedburner statistics.

If anyone can make sense of these trends, particularly the waviness of the second chart, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What are you seeing with your own blogs?

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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7 min

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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