The Nominees for the 2009 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.)

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1. 2020 Science: Blogging the demise of science journalism
2. 2020 Science: Cultural Smokescreen
3. 3 Quarks Daily: A Scientist Goes To An Ashram For A Personal Retreat
4. 3 Quarks Daily: Giambattista Della Porta of Naples: How to Turn a Woman Green
5. 3 Quarks Daily: Shrooming In Late Capitalism: The Way Of The Truffle
6. A Blog Around The Clock: Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish
7. A Blog Around The Clock: Co-Researching spaces for Freelance Scientists?
8. A Blog Around The Clock: Defining the Journalism vs. Blogging Debate, with a Science Reporting angle
9. A Blog Around The Clock: The Shock Value of Science Blogs
10. A Blog Around The Clock: Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?
11. A Blog Around The Clock: Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
12. Adventures in Ethics and Science: How does salt melt snails?
13. Adventures in Ethics and Science: SVP Ethics Education Commitee statement: lessons learned from 'Aetogate'
14. Adventures in Ethics and Science: The Hellinga Retractions (part 1): when replication fails, what should happen next?
15. Adventures in Ethics and Science: The Hellinga Retractions (part 2): when replication fails, what should happen next?
16. AK’s Rambling Thoughts: Wiring the Cell for Power
17. Ambivalent Engineer: Insulating the pool
18. Astroblog: Galileos’ DNA, and different forms of Blindness
19. Back Reaction: The Variational Principle
20. Bad Astronomy: A tiny wobble reveals a massive planet
21. Bad Astronomy: …but how do we recover from Jenny McCarthy?
22. Bad Astronomy: Science IS Imagination
23. Bad Astronomy: Ten Things You Don’t Know About Hubble
24. Bioephemera: Art vs. Science, Part Two: You want raw data? You can't handle raw data!
25. Bioephemera: For the last time: that "Twitter is Evil" paper is not about Twitter!
26. Bioephemera: Jared Diamond hides behind the "it wasn't science" defense
27. Bioephemera: Science journalism: don't forget the editors
28. Cardiobrief: Comment: If prasugrel is delayed, who is to blame?
29. Cardiobrief: JAMA editors take strong stance against conflict of interest and free speech
30. Central & Science: Hey Burt’s Bees, Who’re You Callin’ Ugly?
31. Central & Science: When Chemistry Was Swell
32. Chemjobber: Critiquing the LA Times Sangji article, etc.
33. Cocktail Party Physics: A Nation Of Winers
34. Cocktail Party Physics: A Spark In The Dark
35. Cocktail Party Physics: Crosstown Traffic
36. Cocktail Party Physics: For Whom The Bells Toll
37. Cocktail Party Physics: Science, politics, and getting it wrong
38. Cocktail Party Physics: Stradivari's Secret
39. Cocktail Party Physics: The Universe Makes A Lotta Gas
40. Cocktail Party Physics: They Like To Move It, Move It
41. Cognitive Daily: Guys on dates want to know: Is it really impossible to ignore an attractive face?
42. Cognitive Daily: One more way video games might be good for you
43. Computing Intelligence: Animal Intelligence Continued
44. Cosmic Variance: Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas
45. Cosmic Variance: What Will the LHC Find?
46. Cosmic Variance: Rules for Time Travelers
47. Daylight Atheism: The Age of Wonder
48. Daylight Atheism: Bands of Iron
49. Dot Physics: Physics of Fantastic Contraption I
50. Erik’s Blog: Distance to the Horizon
51. E’s Flat, Ah’s Flat Too: Indus: What did Rao Really Do?
52. Expression Patterns: A Squishy Topic
53. Expression Patterns: Last Saturday
54. Florida Citizens for Science: Florida’s Greatest Menace: Introduction
55. Florida Citizens for Science: Florida’s Greatest Menace V: Brainwashing Students
56. Florida Citizens for Science: Florida’s Greatest Menace VI: Misconceptions, misinterpretations and misinformation
57. Gene Expression: Genetic variation in space & time – Iceland
58. Gene Expression: How Ashkenazi Jewish are you?
59. Gene Expression: Inbreeding & the downfall of the Spanish Hapsburgs
60. Gene Expression: The ancient origins of African pygmies
61. Genetic Future: Is a personal genome sequence worth $350,000?
62. Green Gabro: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
63. Hot Topic: Monckton & the case of the missing Curry
64. I Was Lost But Now I Live Here: Corpus callosum: 1st edition of open science round-up
65. In the Dark: A Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction
66. In The Pipeline: Genes to Diseases: Hard Work, You Say?
67. In The Pipeline: Floppiness is not Your Friend: Who Knew
68. In The Pipeline: Ten Years After: The Genomics Frenzy
69. In The Pipeline: Things I Won’t Work With: Triazadienyl Fluoride
70. In The Pipeline: Your Paper Is A Sack Of Raving Nonsense. Thank You.
71. It’s Only a Theory: Obviously plenty of philosophers use history as a source in philosophy of science
72. It’s Only a Theory: The cult of contingency and the Future of the history and philosophy of science
73. Laelaps: Getting to know "Ida"
74. Laelaps: Repost: The Tragedy of Saartje Baartman
75. Laelaps: Poor, poor Ida, Or: "Overselling an Adapid"
76. Laelaps: The "Million-Dollar Pig's-Tooth Mystery"
77. Mauka to Makai: Baby-Making
78. Mauka to Makai: Do Whales Have Ears?
79. Mauka to Makai: SHARK! (ahem, shark?)
80. Mauka to Makai: The Ocean's Big pHat Problem
81. Minerva’s Howl: Pinker on Violence, then and now...
82. My Genes and Me: Journey to My Genes
83. Nano-hybrids: The excitement of a scientist from balls and sticks
84. Nano-hybrids: Difficult nanotechnology decisions
85. Neurophilosophy: Voluntary amputation and extra phantom limbs
86. Neurotopia: Depression Post 4: The Serotonin Theory (and why it's probably wrong)
87. Neurotopia: The Serotonin System and All that Goes With it
88. Neurotopia: The Value of Stupidity: are we doing it right?
89. NeuroWhoa!: Believer Brains Different from Non-Believer Brains?
90. Observations of a Nerd: A Marine Biologist’s Story
91. Observations of a Nerd: Having Some Fun With Evolution
92. Observations of a Nerd: The End of the Age of Man?
93. Observations of a Nerd: Why I am not a Darwinist, but we should celebrate Darwin Day
94. Open Parachute: Human Morality I: Religious confusion
95. Open Parachute: Human Morality II: Objective morality
96. Open Parachute: Human Morality III: Moral intuition
97. Open Parachute: Human Morality IV: Role of religion
98. Open Parachute: Human Morality V: The secular conscience
99. Professor Astronomy: The Copernican Principle
100. Quantum Bayesian Networks: PageRank – How Google used Statistics to Change the World
101. Respectful Insolence: One more time: Vaccine refusal endangers children
102. Science After Sunclipse: Reverse the Baryon Flux Polarity!
103. Science After Sunclipse: The Necessity of Mathematics
104. Science of Running: Smell This!
105. Science-based Medicine: 2009: Shaping up to be a really bad year for antivaccinationists
106. Science Based Medicine: Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, part II
107. Science Made Cool: Failure is in the Eye of the Beholder
108. Science Made Cool: Natural History at the Time of Darwin's Birth
109. Science, Why Not: Language is Culture and Culture is Language
110. Science, Why Not: Niche partitioning in orb-weaver spiders of Louisiana
111. Science, Why Not: Review of Mark B. Tappan’s “Language, Culture, and Moral Development: A Vygotskian Perspective”
112. Science, Why Not: The development of the agricultural systems used by the Attini tribe over the past 50 million years
113. Simostronomy: Gomez’s Hamburger-Want Fries With That?
114. Simostronomy: Hubble Sees Toast
115. Simostronomy: Polaris
116. Simostronomy: The Remarkable Bobbie Vaile
117. Simostronomy: The Simonsen T-M Diagram
118. Skulls in the Stars: Levitation and diamagnetism, or: LEAVE EARNSHAW ALONE!!!
119. Skulls in the Stars: Michael Faraday, grand unified theorist? (1851)
120. Skulls in the Stars: Mr. Faraday goes wild — with atomic speculation! (1844)
121. Skulls in the Stars: Optics in the Haunted Mansion!
122. Skull in the Stars: The gallery of failed atomic models, 1903-1913
123. Southern Fried Science: A curious case of convergent evolution?
124. Southern Fried Science: The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna
125. Southern Fried Science: The Serpent and the Platypus
126. Starts With a Bang: The Camera that Changed the Universe: Part 1
127. Starts With a Bang: The Camera that Changed the Universe: Part 5
128. Starts With a Bang: The LHC, Black Holes and You
129. Stinky Journalism: Jared Diamond’s Factual Collapse
130. Tetrapod Zoology: Passerine birds fight dirty, a la Velociraptor
131. Tetrapod Zoology: The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
132. The Artful Amoeba: Moss That Swings Both (All?) Ways
133. The Chem Blog: Chemistry: Exploding shit at the nano scale
134. The Chem Blog: More Christmas from the lab ideas
135. The Chem Blog: This month in JACs history
136. The Intersection: Singled Out
137. The Loom: Dawn of the Picasso Fish
138. The Loom: Science Held Hostage
139. The Mousetrap: Major conscious and unconscious processes in the brain: part 4: the easy problem of A-consciousness
140. The Neurocritic: Intersex (for lack of a better word)...
141. The Neurocritic: Mirror Neurons Control Hard-ons?
142. The Neurocritic: The Neurology of Twitter
143. The Neurocritic: Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience
144. The Primate Diaries: Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion?
145. The Primate Diaries: Rivalry Among the Reefs
146. The Primate Diaries: Superorganisms and Group Selection
147. The Science Babe: The Physics of High Heels
148. The Spacewriter’s Ramblings:Mass Holes
149. The Tree of Life: Elsevier, fake medical journals, and yet another reason for #openaccess
150. Tomkow: Blackburn, Truth and other Hot Topics
151. Tom Paine’s Ghost: Dr. Temple Grandin
152. Tom Paine’s Ghost: Nikola Tesla
153. Tom Paine’s Ghost: The Darwin/Lincoln Coincidence
154. Totally Synthetic: Eudesmane Terpense
155. Uncertain Principles: Everything Is Relative in the Magic Closet
156. Uncertain Principles: We Are Science
157. Underverse: Everything That Is The Case
158. Underverse: Refuting "It," Thus
159. Unitary Flow: Smooth Quantum Mechanics
160. Unitary Flow: Smooth Quantum Mechanics: 4.The Video
161. Unitary Flow: The Counterintuitive Time: 1. Time and Determinism
162. Unitary Flow: The Illusion of Center
163. Unitary Flow: The Spinning Dancer's Mystery
164. Way: Implementing Fantasy Science Funding
165. Way: The journal scope in focus -- putting scholarly communication in context
166. Weird Things: Plugging into Black Holes
167. What's New: Sailing into the wind, or faster than the wind
168. What's New: The Black-Scholes equation
169. WhirledView: Prairie
170. World of Psychology: Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments
171. World of Weird Things: What Makes a Planet Habitable?

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Comments

[Adrian Morgan]

The links are wrong for #95 through #98, which all point to #94 (this is the Open Parachute Human Morality series).

Right now I'm mentally exhausted, having read far too many science posts in far too short a time. I've narrowed my vote down to fifteen finalists, but there are certain things I must do before I decide on a favourite. Chief among them is sleep.

[Abbas Raza]

Dear Adrian,

Thank you SO much. I have fixed the problem.

Sleep well.

[Stephen Uitti]

Simostronomy: The Simonsen T-M Diagram

Most of the blogs listed are my favorites. But Simonsen makes me laugh the most.