Vote for one of the nominees for the 3QD Science Prize 2014

Posted on by S. Abbas Raza

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

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  1. 3 Quarks Daily: The Dictionary is not Literature
  2. Action Science Theater: How to fall and miss the ground
  3. Aeon: Cows Might Fly
  4. American Science: The Curious History of the Paleo-Diet, and its Relationship to Science & Modernity
  5. An Evolutionist's Perspective: The Woes of Capitalism: Kinship, Sociality and Economy
  6. Ars Technica: Could dark matter be hiding in plain sight in existing experiments?
  7. Babies Learning Language: Shifting our cultural understanding of replication
  8. BBC: The quest to save the Hollywood bison
  9. Beach Chair Scientist: Mother Nature vs. Santa Claus
  10. Brainwaves: Searching For The Elephant’s Genius Inside the Largest Brain on Land
  11. Charismatic Minifauna: Bats have sparkly poop
  12. Chemically Cultured: That love-hate supervisor relationship
  13. Cocktail Party Physics: Seen and Unseen: Could There Ever Be a “Cinema Without Cuts”?
  14. Comparatively Psyched: The Robin's Song
  15. Curious Meerkat: Eating Insects
  16. Eat Your Brains Out: Science and the Supernatural
  17. Ecology & Evolution: And to the victor the spoiled
  18. Ecology & Evolution: The Heat and Light of Science Communication
  19. Ecology & Evolution: The Science of Scientific Whaling
  20. Ecology & Evolution: What is(n’t) palaeontology like?
  21. Ecology & Evolution: What’s it like to study Zoology?
  22. Errant Science: Tradition, in Science
  23. Eruptions: So, You Think Yellowstone Is About to Erupt
  24. Genotopia: Hail Britannia! (Dorkins Reviews Wade)
  25. Genotopia: On city life, the history of science, and the genetics of race
  26. Grrlscientist: Influenza: How the Great War helped create the greatest pandemic ever known
  27. Hawkmoth: On Wildness
  28. Huffpost: A Few Short Rules on Being Creative
  29. Illumination: GMO Leukemia Outbreak in China
  30. Inkfish: Scientists Ask Why There Are So Many Freaking Huge Ants
  31. Leaving Plato's Cave: The Meta-lympics: a catalyst for scientific discovery
  32. Limulus: Living Fossils
  33. Napoli Unplugged: Procida: Picture Perfect
  34. Napoli Unplugged: Vesuvius at Night
  35. Nautilus: The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
  36. Neurobabble: Parasitic wasps vs. zombie cockroaches
  37. Neurobabble: Technology and the adolescent brain
  38. Neurobabble: What sign languages have taught us about our brains
  39. Nothing in Biology Makes Sense: When the going gets tough, mutualism gets going
  40. Pacific Standard: Your Genome Is a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
  41. Patrick F. Clarkin, PhD: Developmental Plasticity and the “Hard-Wired” Problem
  42. Pen Sapiens: Monkey See, Monkey Yawn
  43. Peter Pearsal: A Desert Orogeny
  44. Planetizen: The Wicked Problem of Urban Biodiversity, pt 1
  45. Psychology Today: Love, Love Medulla: The Neuroscience of Beatlemania
  46. Preposterous Universe: How Quantum Field Theory Becomes “Effective”
  47. Preposterous Universe: Why the Many-Worlds Formulation of Quantum Mechanics Is Probably Correct
  48. Prophage: Modest Data Reported From Oxford Nanopore's Exciting MinION Sequencing Platform
  49. Scicurious: Addiction showcases the brain's flexibility
  50. Science Explained: Knock, Knock Who’s there?
  51. Science Sushi: Did Allergies Evolve To Save Your Life?
  52. Science Sushi: Muscles Love Oxytocin: So-Called “Hug Hormone” Important In Muscle Regeneration
  53. Sexual Selection and Life History Evolution: Aesthetics, mathematics, physics and biology
  54. Skulls in the Stars: How *do* cats land on their feet when falling, anyway?
  55. Slate: Promiscuity Is Pragmatic
  56. Space: Hazard, Risk, and the Steelhead (Oso) Landslide in Washington
  57. Space: Real Atmospheric Science in Stargate: Atlantis
  58. Starts With A Bang: 22 Messages of Hope (and Science) for Creationists
  59. Starts With A Bang: How is the Universe bigger than its age?
  60. Stuff About Space: The Strangest Star: A Neutron Star Inside a Red Giant
  61. Synthetic Daisies: Playing the Long Game of Human Biological Variation
  62. Synthetic Daisies: The game of evolution
  63. The Bleeding Edge: Butterflies
  64. The Book of Science: Photosynthesis
  65. The Conversation: Despite metamorphosis, moths hold on to memories from their days as a caterpillar
  66. The Conversation: The ancient Greek riddle that helps us understand modern disease threats
  67. The Conversation: Why cold-blooded animals don’t need to wrap up to keep warm
  68. The Last Word On Nothing: What Luis Alvarez Did
  69. The Loom: The Wisdom of (Little) Crowds
  70. The Mermaid's Tale: Are bees intelligent?
  71. The Mermaid's Tale: The visible colors and the falseness of human races as natural categories
  72. The Mermaid's Tale: Whooza good gurrrrrl? Whoozmai bayyyy-bee boy?
  73. The Neurocritic: Existential Neuroscience: a field in search of meaning
  74. The Neurocritic: When Waking Up Becomes the Nightmare: Hypnopompic Hallucinatory Pain
  75. The New Yorker: The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O.
  76. The Philosopher's Beard: Love's Labours Lost: How Robots Will Transform Human Intimacy
  77. The Trenches of Discovery: The human machine: obsolete components
  78. Things We Don't Know: Squid Lady Parts
  79. Too Long For Twitter: New neuroscience on why we dream
  80. Tree Town Chemistry: How One Scientist Broke in to Professional Craft Brewing
  81. Unthink: Five Things Scientists Know About Romance
  82. Weekend Adventure: The Wild Inside
  83. Wired: Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
  84. Wired: What is brain death?
  85. You've Got Some Science On You: Infection: It's all a matter of perspective

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Voting ends on September 1st 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 3rd. The finalists will be announced on September 5th and winners of the contest will be announced on September 22nd, 2014.

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