I’ve moved on to the final round for the 2010 prize in science from 3 Quarks Daily. Now it’s in the hands of Richard Dawkins. Congratulations to everyone who has made it this far (including my fellow Discover bloggers Sean Carroll and Ed Yong). Stay tuned for the decision on June 21.
Originally published June 11, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
I’m in Beijing for a few days on assignment. I have (selectively) great Internet access. So I’ll be blogging, but I won’t be immersed in social networks. More anon.
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Originally published June 7, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
Zachariah writes, “Binary ink of my eldest daughter’s name: Lain.”
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Originally published June 5, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
Thanks to everyone who nominated posts from the Loom for 3 Quarks Daily’s Science Prize. Now it’s time to vote!
If you need some background information on the prize, go here. You can then peruse the list of nominated posts here. Great stuff abounds, so you won’t hurt my feelings if you decide someone else’s post is the best! When you’re ready, vote here. The deadline is June 7, 11:59 PM eastern time.
The top 20 vote-getting posts will then be judged by the folks at 3 Quarks Daily, who will then pass their top 6 to Richard Dawkins. Dawkins will then select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winner. Winners will be announced June 21, 2010.
Originally published June 4, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
This morning I talked with Nobel-prize-winning physicist John Mather and a few dozen high school students from New York, Kansas, Florida, and Ghana at the World Science Festival. In a testament to the maturity of videoconferencing technology, we actually had a fantastic conversation, which consisted in large part of the students peppering Mather about cosmology, his area of expertise. I remember well being 14 and thinking to myself, “So…wait a minute…if the universe is expanding, what’s it expanding into?” But I didn’t get to ask the person who built the COBE satellite that actually found some of the key evidence for the Big Bang. So I was a little jealous today.
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