Launched in 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science. No matter what you would like to talk about, you can find it on this website. From climate change to intelligent design, HIV, AIDS to stem cells, science education to space exploration, science is figuring prominently in our discussions of politics, religion, philosophy, business and the arts. New insights and discoveries in neuroscience, theoretical physics and genetics are revolutionizing our understanding of who we are, where we come from and where we're heading. They believe in providing their bloggers with the freedom to exercise their own editorial and creative instincts. We do not edit their work and we do not tell them what to write about. ScienceBlogs is very much an experiment in science communication, and being first also means being first to encounter unforeseen obstacles. They are learning as they go, and like most people and appreciate your understanding and patience. ScienceBlogs was created by Seed Media Group, because they believe that science literacy is a pre condition for progress in the 21st century. At a time when public interest in science is high but public understanding of science remains weak, so they have set out to create innovative media ventures to improve science literacy and to advance global science culture.