{"id":897,"date":"2006-12-07T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/07\/call-for-nominations-nonspecif\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T12:29:49","slug":"call-for-nominations-nonspecif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/07\/call-for-nominations-nonspecif\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Nominations: Non-Specific Item of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve solicited nominations for a bunch of “Year’s Best” categories, with varying degrees of success. Best Pop Song<\/a> was great (and has added a few songs to the list of things to check out the next time I hit iTunes), but I was hoping for more from the best physics results<\/a>. Was it really that slow a year?<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a request for some outside-the-box thinking:<\/p>\n

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In your opinion, what was the best thing of 2006 that doesn’t fall into one of the previous categories?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This could be a cultural work (“Best DVD Release of 2006: Pinky and the Brain<\/cite>“), a physical thing (“Best dessert of 2006: Schadenfreude pie”), a news story (“Best Political Event of 2006: Democratic control of Congress”), a Web phenomenon (“Best Site of 2006: ScienceBlogs<\/a>), or anything else you like.<\/p>\n

Post nominations in the comments, ideally in the form above: “Best [word] of 2006: [your nomination].” You can offer as many suggestions as you like, in as many categories as you like. Explanations and justifications of your choices are entirely optional.<\/p>\n

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(Credit or blame for this idea goes to Kate, who is, of course, the best Kate of 2006…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve solicited nominations for a bunch of “Year’s Best” categories, with varying degrees of success. Best Pop Song was great (and has added a few songs to the list of things to check out the next time I hit iTunes), but I was hoping for more from the best physics results. Was it really that… Continue reading Call for Nominations: Non-Specific Item of the Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}