Why are the Sciences absent from freshly pressed?

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    jeremykun · Member ·

    It seems that freshly pressed is exclusive for blogs about travel, photography, tv/book/movie/music reviews, dating, parenthood, cooking, and whatever seasonal things is happening at the moment.

    I know there are blogs out there about economics, mathematics, computer programming, politics, climatology, genetics, chemistry, medicine, artificial intelligence, and astronomy. And good blogs, with stuff even the common person could appreciate without being buried in technical jargon. For instance, I wrote a post on mathematical models for hunting serial killers which I think the average person could enjoy (the class of high-school freshman I showed it to certainly did). Sure it has math and programming details in it, but it also has lots of pictures to explain things, and details a number of interesting (perhaps horrifying) real life cases on which I tested the model. Never in my year of looking at freshly pressed have I seen anything close to an informative technical post.

    I know the tags feature gets those blogs some visibility (although, more often than not it’s “Time Cop” and not actually science), but why is it that the WordPress home page never exhibits any of these blogs? Do the people who pick what’s freshly pressed just totally ignore any articles with a slight hint of specialization? Do they actually read the blogs they pick? If they’re informed, do they say, “Well, that was a good post, but it certainly isn’t Freshly Pressed material.”

    I want to see posts on freshly pressed that actually teach me something. Sure, it’s great to read about a mom who has to raise a quirky child, or some vague top-ten list about childhood memories; but there is so much knowledge out there! Readers should have an opportunity to read what sorts of things can be done, and are being done in solving the world’s problems.

    So my question is: wtf, WordPress?

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’m sorry but we Volunteers have no information to provide aside from this > Freshly Pressed. This is a matter for Staff. Will you please contact Staff?

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