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The Best of Science blogging – August 2012

The month of August was busy: we had Curiosity landing on Mars, events and interviews with scientists who are directly involved with the Mars Science Laboratory, multimedia that followed up the major event, new bloggers joining us – say Hi to Alan and David. If you are interested in science blogging, and contributing to Australian Science, please read the Editor’s note.

Then the news broke that Neil Armstrong died, so we decided to publish  a rare and unique speech that he delivered in Sydney on 24 August 2011. Beside the major events, check out the articles on alternative energy, environment, virology, pharmaceutical policy, ecology and democracy, science of prediction, modelling, and few calls for participation at the various conferences and events. The recap and the top ten articles of the month are here:

 Top ten posts:

Interview with lead Mars Curiosity rover driver Matt Heverly and Where to land Mars Curiosity for the best science? Interview with Marion Anderson, who helped choose the landing site by Alan Kerlin

Last week I interviewed Matt about this important role, about driving rovers in general, and about the science work that he’ll be helping with.  When Matt came online, he’d quite literally been in the “Mars Yard