Note: If you liked this, Ed Yong’s current blog may be found at: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/blog/not-exactly-rocket-science/ Do head over there and read to your heart’s content. (Even if you didn’t like it, go read! Being able to parse and understand this kind of writing is crucial…)
CAT-holics 
Hi J,
I find http://www.aldaily.com also very interesting. There is a myriad of posts out there, which talk about anything and everything. It also provides quick links to the new magazines and newspapers. It was suggested to me by our very own Vijay J, IMS, Adyar.
Of course, Ashish 🙂 It is one of many excellent blogs out there, I have just picked one personal favourite out of those for this post. The obvious benefits of reading blogs are that one gets practice with (a) small succinct articles (similar to those one might encounter in the paper!) and (b) reading and comprehending onscreen (which is necessary in a CAT-and-mouse scenario). Invaluable from an RC point of view (and quite probably PJ/PC as well)
regards
J
the link above has very very long passages, are you talking abt the same?
Yes indeed! You need not read the entire passage, if you choose, you could just read the first few paras (but when I do get time to go here and start reading I can never stop after a few paras because it gets interesting 😀 ). However, this is the style and level you may expect in a science passage in CAT; heavy stuff (though explained in layman’s terms), and fully expecting you to be able to cope with it.
regards
J