Comments on: Nominations open for the 3 Quarks Daily prize in science blogging

By: Juan Andrzejczyk

Juan Andrzejczyk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:26:08 +0000

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By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:38:21 +0000

Ah whoops, my bad DB. I didn’t realise that the 3QD post had a second page of comments.

By: DB

DB — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:21:58 +0000

I did post my nomination at three quarks as well, I thought we were posting them in this thread so people did not nominate the same post multiple times.

By: Vaishnavi Raghunathan

Vaishnavi Raghunathan — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:59:09 +0000

Hey, you started this! I was just too busy to explore the options. ANYWAY

By: brooks

brooks — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:54:40 +0000

just so any further posters don’t make the same mistake as us internet-challenged types, we post the appropriate link here…

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/05/richard-dawkins-to-judge-2nd-annual-3-quarks-daily-prize-in-science.html

…and NOT HERE!

By: Vaishnavi Raghunathan

Vaishnavi Raghunathan — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:34:11 +0000

Too bad I was so going to choose the duck sex. Anyway, the next cool thing
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/09/17/raptorex-shows-that-t-rex-body-plan-evolved-at-100th-the-size/

Its T.rex come on!

By: DB

DB — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:57:57 +0000

My nomination.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/03/30/caterpillars-use-bacteria-to-produce-green-islands-in-yellowing-leaves/#more-1088

By: brooks

brooks — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:30:00 +0000

oooh, tough choice!

but after a painstaking review process, i have decided to nominate this entry for the 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Science:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/09/29/the-evolution-of-the-past-tense-how-verbs-change-over-time/

…because it talks about two of my fave subjects – evolution and linguistics – and the writing here was elegant and eminently understandable (and yes, i think dr. dawkins would dig the subject matter).