Vote for one of the nominees for the 3QD Science Prize 2015

Posted on by S. Abbas Raza

Browse the nominees in the list below and then go to the bottom of the post to vote.

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

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  1. 3 Quarks Daily: Artificially Flavored Intelligence
  2. 3 Quarks Daily: Fearing Artificial Intelligence
  3. 3 Quarks Daily: On Optimal Paths & Minimal Action
  4. 3 Quarks Daily: Randomness: the Ghost in the Machine?
  5. 3 Quarks Daily: The Monarch Butterflies
  6. Activist Teacher: Self-Image-Incongruence Theory of Individual Health
  7. Andrew Silver: Mo'orea Scavenger Hunt
  8. Bekka S. Brodie: How Blow Flies find Corpses
  9. Collide-a-Scape: No Love in Boulder for Colorado’s GMO Labeling Proposition
  10. Companion Animal Psychology: How Does a Dog's Brain Respond to the Smell of a Familiar Human?
  11. Curious Wavefunction: The fundamental philosophical dilemma of chemistry
  12. Earth Touch News: What Other Animals Have Taught Us About Human Uniqueness
  13. Empirical Zeal: How a 19th Century Math Genius Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice
  14. European Geosciences Union: The Oldest Eurypterid
  15. Excursion Set: Destiny's Child
  16. ImaGeo: New NASA Visualization Shows Carbon Dioxide Emissions Swirling Around the World
  17. Invariance: 3 myths of physics, especially in textbooks
  18. IO9: Your Guide to Pluto: Everything We've Learned From New Horizons So Far
  19. Los Angeles Review of Books: Three Physicists Try Philosophy
  20. Nautilus: Intemperate Planet: How Natural Systems Magnify the Effects of Global Warming
  21. Nautilus: The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
  22. Neurobabble: Masters of deception: how spiders trick ants
  23. No Place Like Home: When Hubble Stared at Nothing for 100 Hours
  24. Nova Next: From Discovery to Dust
  25. One Universe at a Time: Another Brick in the Wall
  26. Preposterous Universe: Why Is There Dark Matter?
  27. Psych Central: Feeling Bipolar Disorder In Your Gut
  28. PsySociety: Decoding Trump-Mania (scroll down after following link for parts 2 and 3)
  29. Roots of Unity: The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
  30. Rosin Cerate: Bezoars are gross bits of gunk that get stuck in your guts
  31. Scicurious: Serotonin and the science of sex
  32. Science: Ants have group-level personalities, study shows
  33. Science Friday: Sunshine Recorder
  34. Science Sushi: Four-Legged Snake Shakes Up Squamate Family Tree – Or Does It?
  35. Scientist Sees Squirrel: Two creatures named “merianae”
  36. Skulls in the Stars: Infinite hotels in swirling beams of light
  37. Social Pulses: The public subsidy of scientific publishing monopolies
  38. Space Age Archaeology: Shadows on the Moon: an ephemeral archaeology
  39. Starts With A Bang: CONFIRMED: The Last Great Prediction Of The Big Bang!
  40. Starts With A Bang: Is the Multiverse Science?
  41. The Loom: Editing Human Embryos: So This Happened
  42. Thinking of Things: All I Didn't Know About Cancer
  43. Thinking of Things: The Pain in the Brain Game
  44. Tycho's Nose: The Kilogram turns 125
  45. Tycho's Nose: The largest dinosaur ever found – and subsequently lost again
  46. Wait But Why: The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
  47. Why Evolution Is True: A gynandromorph moth comes to the light – and tells a story about science
  48. Wired: Glowing Tampons Help Detect Sewage Leaks
  49. Wired: Tambora 1815: Just How Big Was The Eruption?
  50. Wired: When a Giant Asteroid Impact Created Its Own Magma

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Voting ends on September 18th at 11:59 pm NYC time.

Results of the voting round (the top twenty most-voted-for posts) will be posted on the main page on September 19th. The finalists will be announced soon after and winners of the contest will be announced on September 28th, 2015.

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