Best Blog Posts of 2011, Vanity Edition

Yeah, I know, one is supposed to do this kind of thing while the old year is still on, but I didn't want to publish three linklists in a row. Anyway, here are ten posts from 2011 that I found more worthwhile than most, in no particular order.

• The Tree of Life: Eine Filmkritik
• Why Don't Academics Do More Cocaine?
• The God Delusion: What Bryan Caplan Might Be Overlooking with Respect to Having (More) Kids (I really like this post, but it would be a little more convincing if I had actually read the book)
• Two Underappreciated Perspectives on Alcoholism
• Divas, Tweets & the Phil Collins Approach to Human Relations
• Die wissenschaftliche Methode
• Porn & Booze: Two Counterarguments
• Can You Vent Your Anger? Why Psychologists and Laypersons Disagree
• Signaling Power Is Cool
• A Proposal for a New Rule, with the Aim of Improving the Social Sciences and the Humanities

As for "popular", I don't know, if by "popular" you mean "liked by many". Concerning traffic, it seems that's largely driven by how close to the top the post comes in on Google (relative to searches for that term, I guess). If you want to increase your blog's traffic, I suggest you write a post the title of which combines the terms "10,000 hour rule", "best alternative rock songs" and - surprise entry at no. 3 - "Bruno Gröning".

(Best blog posts of 2011 by other people)