The nominees for the 2012 3QD Science Prize are:

Posted on by S. Abbas Raza

Alphabetical list of blog names followed by the blog post title:

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For prize details, click here.

And after looking around, click here to vote.

  1. 13.7: Physics Vs. Philosophy: Really?
  2. 3 Quarks Daily: In the Kingdom of Decay
  3. Above the Market: We Suck at Math
  4. Accidental Blogger: Psychology’s Quest for Scientific Respectability
  5. Aetiology: Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS): history and implications
  6. Alien Plantation: Agave de Mayo
  7. Amy Shira Teitel: Was NASA’s First Launch Delay its Most Significant?
  8. Antimatter: A tribute to Stephen Hawking
  9. Astrobites: Let’s Lasso Us Some Space Rocks: Asteroid Mining And You
  10. Astrobites: The WISE way to deal with 2.7 million images: a public data release
  11. Astrobites: This star lives in exciting times, or, How did Betelgeuse make that funny shape?
  12. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Red Aurora Over Australia
  13. Azimuth: Information Geometry
  14. Backreaction: The hunt for the first exoplanet
  15. Baloon Juice: I’m Shocked! Shocked To Find That There Are Neutrinos Going On Here
  16. Basic Space: Supernova turns inside out and kicks neutron star
  17. Beach Chair Scientist: An important call for more forage fish to remain in the sea
  18. Big in Science: Why Your Next Doctor May Be A Computer
  19. Boing Boing: What Fukushima can teach us about coal pollution
  20. Boundary Vision: Do scientific explanations have to ruin wonder? Stargazing and more with songwriter Jim Fitzpatrick
  21. Cedar’s Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online
  22. Context and Variation: Vaginal pH Redux: Broader Perspectives on Douching, Race… and Lime Juice
  23. Cool Physics: Einstein, Darwin & the 21st Century…
  24. Cosmology Science Blog: Cosmic Microwave Angular Resolution Surprise
  25. Cosmology Science Blog: Observation of two early yet mature galaxies: Rare objects or is Big Bang model inaccurate?
  26. Delfikorakle: Pizza and Panini
  27. Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The “size” of evolutionary change, and why it matters
  28. Disease Prone: Antibiotics with a side of steak
  29. Do the Math: Can Economic Growth Last?
  30. Doing Good Science: Methodology versus beliefs: What did Marcus Ross do wrong?
  31. Don’t Mind the Mess: The Whole Truth About Autism
  32. Double X Science: From alchemist to chemist: What kind of chemistry is that?
  33. Double X Science: Pregnancy 101: Peas made me puke, but not just in the morning
  34. Double X Science: Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart?
  35. Double X Science: The path from science to alarmism: How science gets twisted before it gets to you
  36. Eastern Blot: Make history, not vitamin C
  37. Empirical Zeal: The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains
  38. Empirical Zeal: What it feels like for a sperm, or how to get around when you are really, really small
  39. Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.
  40. Eruptions: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava
  41. From the Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change
  42. Gaines, On Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu
  43. Galileo’s Pendulum: Is Cosmology in Shambles?
  44. Good Thinking: Mammograms and PSA Tests: What Your Doctor Needs to Tell You
  45. If We Assume: Plots as Art
  46. Information Processing: “Only he was fully awake”
  47. Inkfish: Life Advice: Think More about Death
  48. Inspiring Science: Through the gut: how plants in food regulate genes in animals
  49. Katie Ph.D.: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
  50. Not Exactly Rocket Science: A world within a tumour – new study shows just how complex cancer can be
  51. Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Prof Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca
  52. Of Particular Significance: What’s a Proton, Anyway?
  53. Percolator: Birds Lose Their Magnetic Maps as Scientists Reverse Direction
  54. Physics Buzz Blog: Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
  55. Puff the Mutant Dragon: Do vaccines contain toxic chemicals?
  56. Quantum Diaries: Helicity, Chirality, Mass, and the Higgs
  57. Resonaances: How to make a line
  58. Science Sushi: Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture
  59. Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
  60. Scientific American: Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad?
  61. Scientific American Guest Blog: Catalytic Clothing–Purifying Air Goes Trendy
  62. Scientific American Guest Blog: Reflections on biology and motherhood: Where does Homo sapiens fit in?
  63. Scientific American Guest Blog: The educational value of creative disobedience
  64. Scientific American Guest Blog: Too Good to Be True: Sea Mammals, Plastic Pollution and a Modern Chimera
  65. Scientific American Guest Blog: Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren’t There
  66. Scientific American Guest Blog: Your Appendix Could Save Your Life
  67. Sentence First: “Who to follow” is grammatically fine
  68. Shtetl-Optimized: My visit to D-Wave: Beyond the roast-beef sandwich
  69. Side Effects: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome: Findings, Recommendations, and Resources
  70. Skulls in the Stars: The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)
  71. Southern Fried Science: Climbing Mount Chernobyl
  72. Starts With A Bang!: So, you’ve learned that the Sun is going to explode…
  73. Starts With A Bang!: The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe
  74. Starts With A Bang!: Why is there something instead of nothing?
  75. Talk Nerdy To Me: My Evening With Stephen Hawking
  76. The Beast, the Bard, and the Bot: Are Humans Still Evolving?
  77. The Crux: What Is the “Bible of Psychiatry” Supposed to Do? The Peculiar Challenges of an Uncertain Science
  78. The Dayside: Sine-wave speech recognition in Mandarin
  79. The Hammock Physicist: Einstein Got It Wrong, Can You Do Better?
  80. The Loom: Neanderthal Neuroscience
  81. The Mermaid’s Tale: Forget bipedalism. What about babyism?
  82. The Neurocritic: Little Evidence for a Direct Link between PTSD and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
  83. The Neurocritic: The Disconnection of Psychopaths
  84. The Primate Diaries: Freedom to Riot: On the Evolution of Collective Violence
  85. The Scorpion and the Frog: Decisions, Decisions
  86. The Scorpion and the Frog: Snakes Deceive to Get a Little Snuggle
  87. The Scorpion and the Frog: The Love Hormone of 2012
  88. The Scorpion and the Frog: Why This Horde of Idiots is No Genius
  89. The Sky’s the Limit: Saturn’s Rings Explained…
  90. The Spectrum of Riemannium: Time of Flight
  91. The Stochastic Scientist: Carbon monoxide as therapy?
  92. The Thoughtful Animal: Can You Hear Me Now? Human Noise Disrupts Blue Whale Communication
  93. The Thoughtful Animal: Contagious Yawning: Evidence of Empathy?
  94. The Thoughtful Animal: Four Loko Is Just Like The Copenhagen Philharmonic
  95. The Thoughtful Animal: Hyenas Give Up Eating Garbage for Lent, Hunt Donkeys Instead
  96. The Thoughtful Animal: Music and Memory: Robert Sherman, Voice of Your Childhood, Dies at 86
  97. The Trenches of Discovery: The War of the Immune Worlds
  98. Theobrominated: How can a flower like this exist?
  99. Three-toed Sloth: In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
  100. Uncertain Principles: Watching Photons Interfere: “Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer”
  101. viXra log: Higgs Boson Live Blog: Analysis of the CERN announcement
  102. Weird Things: Oh quantum causality, we hardly knew ye…
  103. Where is Yvette?: Artie Aardvark’s Amazing ASTRON Adventures
  104. Why We Reason: Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
  105. World Science Festival: E.O. Wilson’s Controversial Rethink of Altruism
  106. Write Science: Pigeons, the Internet, and the Meaning of Science
  107. Write Science: Smartphones and the Enduring Silence of the Cosmos