Thanks to everyone who voted Dana’s treatment of Leibniz and Spinoza for the Quark; she came in fourth and is a semifinalist. Next,
The daily editors of 3 Quarks Daily will now pick the top six entries from these, and after possibly adding up to three “wildcard” entries, will send that list of finalists to Professor Dan Dennett on September 11. We will also post the list of finalists here on that date.
Cross your fingers.
18 comments
September 8, 2009 at 10:01 am
dana
Do you think we can get them to read the whole series without it upsetting the contest? I don’t want it to be unfair, but I only broke the post into three pieces because we’re not quite sure when Leibniz and Spinoza met…
Thanks to the commenters, as strange a buncha quarks as there ever were.
September 8, 2009 at 10:42 am
kid bitzer
congratulations, dana.
but don’t get your hopes up. i understand one of the “wildcards” is a series of six blog posts written by some french guy sitting in front of a fire in an over-heated room wearing a dressing-gown.
September 8, 2009 at 10:45 am
kid bitzer
and eating cheetos.
or, at any rate, it seems to him that he is eating cheetos.
September 8, 2009 at 11:01 am
dana
perhaps his cheetos are made of glass.
September 8, 2009 at 11:15 am
Josh
Up, down, top, bottom, strange, charmed.
That’s not how the Konami Code goes…
September 8, 2009 at 11:17 am
JPool
Perhaps he is made of cheetos.
September 8, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Jason B.
perhaps his cheetos are made of glass
That would have made a bizarre lyric for a Blondie song.
September 8, 2009 at 1:37 pm
kid bitzer
on the other hand, pumpkin-flavoured cheetos might catch on.
and they’d be the right color.
September 8, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Kieran
Dan Dennett?
September 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm
ari
Kieran?
September 8, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Mikhail Emelianov
As a competitor-blog I would like to demonstratively uncross my fingers!
September 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm
ben
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan Dennett!
September 8, 2009 at 5:03 pm
dana
Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?
A plush Quark for the winner!
That’s not how the Konami Code goes…
.. when you play it on the macro level. We rock our Nintendo subatomic.
September 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm
dana
Oh, even better. They have antiparticles — for the runners up?
September 8, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Jason B.
When you get to Muons, give me a call. I don’t get out of bed for such mundane particles.
September 8, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Kieran
ira?
September 8, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Mikhail Emelianov
Is biting one’s thumb an opposite of crossing one’s fingers? I’m not entirely familiar with these procedures.
September 8, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Jason B.
Hrm. Apparently, in keeping with this thread, Kieran (or, might I say, nareik?) has identified the ari antiparticle.
Okay, that’s not just nerdy, it’s stupid. I’m biting my crossed thumbs at something.