Below are the ten most read posts for the month of August, 2010, in order of popularity.

• How to build a canoe from scratch on a graduate student stipend
• The Southern Fried Scientist’s advice for new graduate students
• Anti-shark stereotypes in “River Monsters”
• Shark Week 2010: A big step in the right direction!
• Epistemological Idioms
• Dolphin-safe tuna: conservation success story or ecological disaster?
• Shark Conservation: The problem, the goal, and how to get there
• Tyrone Hayes, Atrazine, Syngenta, and a little DMX
• An Ancient Sea Monster’s Fearsome Fins
• 10 reasons why marine mammals aren’t as cute as you think they are

~Southern Fried Scientist