Category: Media & Weblogs
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The 3rd annual competition for the best science writing on blogs and e-zines is now open at 3 Quarks Daily. If you have read an interesting science post in the last 12 months, please consider nominating it. For details of the rules and deadlines, see here.
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The winners of the 2011 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature prizes have been announced. Please check out the winning entries here and if you haven't read them, take a look. Enjoy also the very interesting prize logos. Although our own entry is not among the winners, it was great fun to compete and campaign. Thanks to everyone who…
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A few weeks ago the 3 QD Arts & Literature contest for blog writings was announced here. I indicated then that a post from Accidental Blogger had been nominated. I am happy to report that the post has been selected as one of the nine finalists by the editors of 3 Quarks Daily. The eligible entries will be judged by author Laila Lalami to determine…
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If you have read an interesting, well written blog post related to the arts or literature published on or later than February 23, 2010, consider nominating it for a prize sponsored by 3 Quarks Daily. Please follow the link to find out the rules of the contest and the deadlines for nominations and voting. Author Laila Lalami will judge the competition. A post from…
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Here we go again. The headline reads "Study Ties Hot Flashes to Lower Breast Cancer Risk". The article goes on to blabber thusly: 'Here's some good news for women ever bothered by hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms: Your risk for breast cancer may be reduced as much as 50 percent, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson…
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What would your biography look like if it was written by Google? Would Google emphasize the same aspects of your character and life story that you would? If a set of court cases currently working their way through the Spanish justice system is any indication, Google would likely select the moments in history when you…
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A little over a month ago Wikileaks began to release U.S. State Department diplomatic cables and politicians cried. Previously, Wikileaks had released U.S. Army SIGACT reports, detailing nearly every engagement in Afghanistan since the invasion, and politicians cried. Before that Wikileaks had released the Iraq War logs, before that the Apache attack on Reuters journalists.…
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The nomination process for 3 Quarks Daily's 2nd annual prize for the best political writings on blogs is now open. Please check out the announcement and nominate a post of your liking. This year the competition may be of special interest to our authors and readers – an A.B. post will be among the nominees.…
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When it rains, it pours. I went out looking for a few new authors for the blog just a week ago. Three have already come on board, two have posted and a fourth signed up over the weekend bringing the total number of A.B. authors to twelve. Jesse Schaefer comes to us from Arizona and he is looking forward to…
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After despairing for many months at the flagging rate of posting on the blog, I took the plunge and invited three new authors to Accidental Blogger in quick succession. You have already met Norman and Omar. Now please welcome Cyrus Hall. As with the other two new arrivals, I became acquainted with Cyrus also in the labyrinths of the…
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I am happy to announce another new author on Accidental Blogger. I encountered Omar Ali at 3 Quarks Daily where his well thought out comments caught my attention. I am pleased that he accepted my invitation to write on our blog. I will let Omar introduce himself: I am an academic physician from Pakistani Punjab and have…
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Accidental Blogger is pleased to welcome Norman Costa as its newest author. Readers may have noticed that our blogging rate has fallen quite precipitously in the last year. Sujatha recently alluded to it and the possible causes for the slow down. We hope that adding a new voice to the blog will liven things up. Norman joins us here after…
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Happy Birthday, Accidental Blogger! Ruchira has asked me to do the honors in this fifth anniversary post and had suggested a heading along the lines of 'Five Years and Fatigued'. Of course we are all fatigued for various reasons- disillusionment with a too-centrist state of affairs, work, sleepless nights with babies, family and other commitments,…
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Over at 3 Quarks Daily, a spirited discussion is under way regarding the morality of informed parents giving birth to biological children when the world is becoming over-populated, strapped for resources and there is an abundance of poor, malnourished and orphaned children in the world. Tauriq Moosa's orginal provocative post here. Nicholas Smyth's rebuttal here. Moosa's…
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