Link Bait Hall of Fame
Tag Archive | "science"
Astronomy Picture of the Day
This feature showing a large (800 x 550 pixel) photo of outer space, updated daily. Using the same premise that bloggers use, delivering fresh new content on a specific theme and/or of a specific type (video, review, photo) every day. Not an easy form of link bait to create (this one came from NASA), but if [...]
Continue reading...Break out the bubbly: White wine may be good for you
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
In this piece, New Scientist takes a page out of WebMD’s book and reports on how something we thought was bad for us may actually be good for us. Cool! Don’t you want to go see why? I sure did. Remember all the hullaballoo when red win (in reasonable amounts) was discovered to be good for [...]
Continue reading...Distractions at work could help problem-solving
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
People love to have their vices validated (though whether they admit it or not is a different story). And while that’s not the point of this news article, the headline sure makes you think so. The piece is really a report on the not-so-surprising results of scientific research into the effect that taking breaks has on [...]
Continue reading...Family Keeps Webbed Fingers
Monday, October 20, 2008
Why of all the National Geographic videos its website pumps out each day is this the one that gets so widelyt linked? The Freak Factor. Shock value. None of us can resist a glimpse into the bizarre, in this case a entire webbed-fingered family. As this piece exemplifies, contrary to popular belief most of the world’s [...]
Continue reading...The Sun
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Boston.com “The Big Picture” photo essays continue to be some of the most linkable web pages online. It would be hard for anyone, much less a webmaster on a limited budget, to match its level of quality and authority, but fortunately you don’t have to. Unless you’re on the same scale as a Boston Globe, [...]
Continue reading...Amazing Animal Abiities
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
There are several lessons to be learned from this piece of Top 10 List link bait. 1. If you can work “Amazing” into a headline for a strong piece of link bait, then do it. Use it as a launching pad, and see what you can come up with: “Amazing…” 2. Everyone is fascinated by animals (and [...]
Continue reading...Cows Have Strange Sixth Sense
Monday, October 6, 2008
I think the thing I like best about this bizzare “news” story is that the evidence supporting the strange discovery the piece reveals – that cows naturally tend to face due North or South – came from studying Google Earth satellite images. Go 21st century science! Way to use those resources to help us find [...]
Continue reading...Where Do Satellites Go When We Die
Friday, October 3, 2008
The first thing I though when I read this piece and saw these pictures of how absurdly many satellites are now orbitting the earth was Wow, look at all the link bait categories this story falls into. It’s got elements of News, Tech, Controversy/Debate, Shock Value, Images (though as eye candy it leaves a bitter [...]
Continue reading...Scifi’s Greatest Space Builders – And How We’ll Try to Copy Them
Thursday, September 25, 2008
To many, science fiction is the face of what’s to come. And in many instances, it’s proven to be so. (Though thank God we’re not eating Soylent Green…yet. At least I hope not.) Architecture is just one of the industries already showing the “futuristic” design of fiction’s past. This thoughtful piece (no mere “list” post) [...]
Continue reading...Adam Savage on the Evidence of Evolution on MythBusters - Popular Mechanics
Friday, September 5, 2008
Here’s the first podcast in our collection of Link Bait Hall of Fame nominees, and our second back-to-school themed nominee. This one’s from Popular Mechanics and MythBuster contributing editor Robert Savage on the shambles of American science education, the hypocrisy of No Child Left Behind, and the supporting evidence for the evolution side of the [...]
Continue reading...© 2008 Link Bait Hall of Fame. Powered by Wordpress.
Friday, October 24, 2008
1 Comment