Introducing the Pale Blue Blog

Astrobiology Magazine is proud to welcome the new addition of the Pale Blue Blog to our website. The Pale Blue Blog is a unique collection of individual bloggers who voice their opinions on matters concerning life’s potential on planets beyond our solar system.

The Pale Blue Blog site is now available for your browsing enjoyment here at Astrobiology Magazine at: http://astrobio.net/paleblueblog/

About Us – The Pale Blue Blog

This is a blog composed of individuals. We all wear lots of hats, and the hat we wear here is that of individual bloggers voicing their own opinions on matters. Thus, you shouldn’t take anything we say here as speaking for the various institutions that fund us, employ us, play softball with us, or have any other relationship to us. What we say here we say as individuals.

This blog is meant to be many things. First and foremost, it is a science blog, and for the most part we’ll be “talking shop.” More specifically, it’s a blog about “pale blue dots,” in the way that Carl Sagan once referred to the Earth. Thus, we’ll discuss pale-blue-dot-related topics, including:

astrobiology

evolution of life

extrasolar planets

climate and anthropogenic climate change

planetary science

But this blog also aims to be a little different than your “traditional” science blog, in much the same way an interactive classroom is different from a “traditional” powerpoint-based one. We want to foster multi-directional conversations. This includes giving “non-bloggers” the opportunity to post their own ideas on these topics. You can do that with the “PaleBlue.you” button over on the right sidebar.

Finally, we’ll also be hosting lots of “meta” conversations about science communication. These are wondrous topics to consider, and the scientists that are drawn to researching them are also often drawn to communicating their work to the rest of the world. So we’ll talk about that, too, and hopefully improve our own abilities in this regard along the way.

Whether you are joining us as a “shadow” reader, a “commenter” or a “poster” we welcome you to the PaleBlue.blog community.

(Oh, and in case you didn’t notice, we’re new. So please excuse the changes and the periodic downtime, and also please let us know if you see anything around here that could be improved.)

This story has been translated into Portuguese.