The 3rd Annual Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree
It’s time for the annual Experimental History Blog Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree!
一年一度的实验历史博客竞赛、盛会和大露营到了！
Send me your best unpublished blog post, and if I pick yours, I’ll send you real cash money and tell everybody how great you are.
把你最好的未发表的博客文章发给我，如果我选择你的，我会给你真正的现金，并告诉每个人你有多棒。
You can see last year’s winners and honorable mentions here .
您可以在此处查看去年的获奖者和荣誉奖。
They included: a self-experiment on lactose intolerance, a story about working as a 10-year-old bartender, a takedown of randomized-controlled trials, and an economic explainer of college sports.
其中包括：关于乳糖不耐症的自我实验、一个关于 10 岁调酒师工作的故事、一项随机对照试验的删除以及大学体育的经济学解释。
The authors were software engineers, pseudonymous weirdos, academics, professional behavior-changers, freelancers, moms, and straight up randos and normies.
作者是软件工程师、化名怪人、学者、专业行为改变者、自由职业者、妈妈以及普通人和普通人。
That’s the whole point of blogging—you can be anyone, and you can write about anything.
这就是博客的全部意义——你可以是任何人，你可以写任何东西。
If you’re looking for some inspiration, here are some triumphs of the form:
如果您正在寻找一些灵感，这里有一些这种形式的胜利：
Book Reviews: On the Natural Faculties , The Gossip Trap , Progress and Poverty , all of The Psmith’s Bookshelf
书评：《论自然能力》、《八卦陷阱》、《进步与贫困》，所有 Psmith 的书架
Deep Dives : Dynomight on air quality and air purifiers , Higher than the Shoulders of Giants, or a Scientist’s History of Drugs , How the Rockefeller Foundation Helped Bootstrap the Field of Molecular Biology , all of Age of Invention
深入探讨：空气质量和空气净化器的 Dynomight、高于巨人的肩膀或科学家的药物史、洛克菲勒基金会如何帮助引导分子生物学领域，所有发明时代
Big Ideas: Ads Don’t Work That Way , On Progress and Historical Change , Meditations on Moloch , Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail , 10 Technologies that Won’t Exist in 5 Years
大创意：广告不是这样运作的、关于进步和历史变革、对 Moloch 的沉思、现实拥有令人惊讶的细节、10 项 5 年内不会存在的技术
Personal Stories/Gonzo Journalism: No Evidence of Disease , It-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named , adventures with the homeless people outside my house , My Recent Divorce and/or Dior Homme Intense , The Potato People
个人故事/奇闻趣事新闻：没有疾病的证据，它不能被命名，与我家外面无家可归的人一起冒险，我最近的离婚和/或 Dior Homme Intense，土豆人
Scientific Reports/Data Analysis: Lady Tasting Brine , Fahren-height , A Chemical Hunger , The Mind in the Wheel , all of Experimental Fat Loss , all of The Egg and the Rock
科学报告/数据分析：女士品尝盐水、华氏高度、化学饥饿、车轮中的思想、所有实验性减脂、所有鸡蛋和岩石
How-to and Exhortation: The Most Precious Resource Is Agency , How To Be More Agentic , Things You’re Allowed to Do , Are You Serious?
指导和劝告：最宝贵的资源是代理，如何变得更加代理，你被允许做的事情，你是认真的吗？
, 50 Things I Know , On Befriending Kids , Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn’t you?
，我知道的 50 件事，关于与孩子交朋友，不要问你为什么要从事生物学工作，而是问：你为什么不呢？
Good Posts Not Otherwise Categorized: The biggest little guy , Baldwin in Brahman , The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel , Bay Area House Parties ( 1 , 2 , 3 , etc.), Alchemy is ok , Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead , If You’re So Smart Why Can’t You Die?
未按其他方式分类的好帖子：最大的小家伙、婆罗门的鲍德温、阿拉米达-威霍肯卷饼隧道、湾区房屋派对（1、2、3等）、炼金术还可以、想法还活着而你死了、如果你这么聪明为什么你不能死？
, A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
，博客文章是一个非常长且复杂的搜索查询，用于找到有趣的人并使他们将有趣的内容发送到您的收件箱
Last year’s winners : 100,000,000 CROWPOWER and no horses on the moon (1st place), What Ethiopian runners taught me about reading scientific literature, Or, how to go from overeating Italian food to winning marathons, if you’re Ethiopian (2nd place), and Did Cheetos try to incite a rebellion in 2008?
去年的获奖者：100,000,000 CROWPOWER，月球上没有马（第一名），埃塞俄比亚跑步者教我如何阅读科学文献，或者，如果你是埃塞俄比亚人，如何从暴饮暴食的意大利食物到赢得马拉松比赛（第二名），以及 2008 年奇多是否试图煽动叛乱？
(3rd place)
（第三名）
Change the sharing setting to “Anyone with the link”.
将共享设置更改为“知道链接的任何人”。
This is not the default setting, and if you don’t change it, I won’t be able to read your post.
这不是默认设置，如果您不更改它，我将无法阅读您的帖子。
I’ll also post an excerpt of your piece on Experimental History and heap praise upon it, and I’ll add your blog to my list of Substack recommendations for the next year.
我还将发布你关于实验历史的文章的摘录，并对其给予高度赞扬，并且我会将你的博客添加到我明年的 Substack 推荐列表中。
You’ll retain ownership of your writing, of course.
当然，您将保留对自己作品的所有权。
Only unpublished posts are eligible.
只有未发表的帖子才有资格。
As fun as it would be to read every blog post ever written, I want to push people to either write something new or finish something they’ve been sitting on for too long.
尽管阅读每一篇博客文章都很有趣，但我想推动人们要么写一些新的东西，要么完成他们已经搁置太久的东西。
You’re welcome to publish your post after you submit it.
欢迎您在提交帖子后发布您的帖子。
If you win, I’ll reach out beforehand and ask you for a direct link to your post so I can include it in mine.
如果你赢了，我会提前联系你并要求你提供你的帖子的直接链接，这样我就可以将它包含在我的帖子中。
There’s technically no word limit, but if you send me a 100,000 word treatise I probably won’t finish it.
从技术上讲，没有字数限制，但如果你给我发一篇 100,000 字的论文，我可能不会完成它。
You don’t need to have a blog to submit, but if you win and you don’t have one, I will give you a rousing speech about why you should start one.
你不需要有一个博客来提交，但如果你赢了但你没有博客，我会给你一个激动人心的演讲，告诉你为什么你应该开始一个。
Previous top-three winners are not eligible to win again, but honorable mentions are.
以前的前三名获奖者没有资格再次获奖，但荣誉奖有资格。
just curious -- does anyone know roughly when winners are announced?
只是好奇——有人知道大概什么时候公布获奖者吗？