The Nominees for the 2011 3QD Prize in Science Are:

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

(Please report any problems with links in the comments section below.)

For prize details, click here.

And after looking around, click here to vote.

1. (((1/f))): A Sunday Afternoon Watching Symmetry Break
2. A Primate of Modern Aspect: Penis Spines, Pearly Papules, and Pope Benedict's Balls
3. Aetiology: Pigs with Ebola Zaire: a whole new can o' worms
4. Anthropology in Practice: Power, Confidence, and High-Heels
5. Babble: D-MER and the Breastfeeding Blues
6. Bad Astronomy: Most distant object ever seen... maybe
7. Bering in Mind: One Reason Why Humans Are Special and Unique: We Masturbate. A Lot
8. Biodiversity in Focus: The Fly Tree of Life - Big Science, Big Results?
9. Bishnu Marasini: Cholera in Haiti and Association to South Asia and Scientific Study to Reduce Recurrence
10. Body Horrors: Blood Money: Hookworm Economics in the Postbellum South
11. BoingBoing: Nuclear Energy 101: Inside the "Black Box" of Power Plants
12. Byte Size Biology: But did you correct your results using a dead salmon?
13. Centauri Dreams: 'Blue Stragglers' in the Galactic Bulge
14. Communicate Science: Is Féidir Linn: Obama was right
15. Convergence: Ocean Acidifi-WHAT?!
16. Cosmic Variance: Physics and the Immortality of the Soul
17. Cosmic Variance: The Fine Structure Constant is Probably Constant
18. Cosmology Science Blog: International Astronomical Union has no definition for Big Bang
19. Critical Twenties: How a college student can derive the RNA world hypothesis from scratch
20. Culturing Science: Can seabirds overfish a resource? The case of cormorants in Estonia
21. Culturing Science: Reflections on 2010: humans as biological machine and "love" (whatever!)
22. Culturing Science: When Adaptation Doesn't Happen
23. Deep Sea News: Quantifying Outreach to the Cult of Science
24. Deep Sea News: This is clearly an important species we're dealing with
25. Dinner Party Science: Is the World Real?
26. Dinner Party Science: Tycho's drunken moose and other stories
27. Doctor Stu's Blog: The Future of Nuclear Power after Fukushima: Thorium Reactors?
28. Dot.Physics: Where Does the Carbon Come From?
29. Dr. Carin Bondar: Sacrifice on the Serengeti
30. Edible Geography: Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution
31. Empirical Zeal: Blind Fish in Dark Caves Shed Light on the Evolution of Sleep
32. Empirical Zeal: When Nice Guys Finish First: A Lesson From Tiny Robots
33. Empirical Zeal: Why Moths Lost Their Spots, and Cats Don't Like Milk
34. ERV: Barnyard Week: White Chickens Are ERV Mutants
35. Furahan Biology and Allied Matters: Size matters, but so does gravity II
36. Georneys: Word of the Week: O is for Ophiolite
37. Highly Allochthonous: Levees and the Illusion of Flood Control
38. Hudson Valley Geologist: SuperMoon
39. In the Dark: No Cox please, we're British
40. Is This Your Homework: A Plethora of Planets
41. Laelaps: The Pelican's Beak - Success and Evolutionary Stasis
42. Lindau Nobel Community: Seeking Inspiration
43. Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Dear Hypothesis
44. Matt Soniak: Shell Games: The Social and Behavioral Aspects of Hermit Crab Real Estate
45. Matthew Herper: The First Child Saved By DNA Sequencing
46. Neuron Culture: Free Science, One Paper at a Time
47. Neuron Culture: The Tight Collar: The New Science of Choking Under Pressure
48. Neutrino Blog: Four Neutrinos? But You Said There Were Just Three!
49. Observations of a Nerd: How Do You ID a Dead Osama Anyway?
50. Observations of a Nerd: Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill: Conversations With My Grandpa
51. Observations of a Nerd: Why do women cry? Obviously it's so they don't get laid
52. Oh, For the Love of Science: Bufotoxin Tolerance in Keelback Snakes: Recent Adaptation to a New Threat, or Preadaptation From An Ancient Foe?
53. Oh, For the Love of Science: Prehistoric Clues Provide Insight into Climate's Future Impact on Oceans
54. Opinionator: Morals Withoud God?
55. Oscillatory Thoughts: Why we don't need a brain
56. Past Horizons: The Bones of Martyrs?
57. Puff the Mutant Dragon: Bubonic Plague in America, Part I: LA Outbreak
58. Quantum Tantra: Fun With an Argon Atom
59. Ravindra Jadhav's Blog: Graphene Wonder
60. Resonaances: Theorists vs. the CDF bump
61. Risk Science Blog: Finding My Tears For Japan: When 1 Is Worse Than 10,000
62. Scientific American Guest Blog: Seratonin and Sexual Preference: Is It Really That Simple?
63. Scientific American Observations: Circadian clock without DNA--History and the power of metaphor
64. Screeds and Quibbles: The performativity of epidemiology: how smoking bans could increase death rates
65. Smells Like Science: Field Notes From A Maya Ruin
66. Smells Like Science: The Psychology of Killing and the Origins of War
67. Southern Fried Science: Back from the Brink: Victories in Conservation
68. Starts With A Bang: Where Is Everybody?
69. Surprising Science: Rare Earth Elements Not Rare, Just Playing Hard to Get
70. Tetrapod Zoology: Heinrich's digital Kentrosaurus: the SJG Stegosaur special, Part II
71. The Art in Science: Who the heck is The Vitruvian Man?
72. The Artful Amoeba: Bombardier Beetles, Bee Purple, and the Sirens of the Night
73. The Artful Amoeba: The Fungus and Virus that Rot Bee Brains
74. The Astronomist: The Universe and Life is Asymmetric: Chirality
75. The International NanoScience Community: At the Bleeding Edge: Benchmarking Next-Gen NanoTox Protocols
76. The Loom: The Human Lake
77. The Mother Geek: How "Boner" Is Misleading: The Science Behind an Erect Penis
78. The Mouse Trap: Dicotomies; or Psychology in a nutshell
79. The Physics arXiv Blog: First Observation of the Dynamical Casimir Effect
80. The Soft Anonymous: Book Review: Logicomix
81. The Thoughtful Animal: Defending Your Territory: Is Peeing on the Wall Just for the Dogs?
82. The Thoughtful Animal: Is Pedagogy Specific to Humans? Teaching in the Animal World
83. The Thoughtful Animal: Need A Date? Take a Cue From the Birds
84. The Thoughtful Animal: Perseverating on Perseverative Error: What does the "A-not-B" Error Really Tell Us About Infant Cognition?
85. Uncertain Principles: Measuring Gravity: Ain't Nothin' but a G Thing
86. Urban Astronomer: Are the universal constants changing?
87. ViXra Log: New luminosity record for LHC + Injector Chain

Comments

[tim jeffries]

i vote for #27 great work..

[Bhanu Korremula]

I vote for #49 riding dead osama

[Magoonski]

#76

[Magoonski]

Opps, wrong spot should have read top of page first :-P

[Janna Swart]

I vote for #41.

[DK]

"Seratonin"? How the hell 3quarksdaily folks don't know how a major neurotransmitter is called???

[Greg]

I vote for #50

[geez]

#37 Highly Allochtonous

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