Thanks for your votes, everyone!
One of the three posts of mine initially nominated for the 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Prize made it to the semi-finals! Somewhat unsurprisingly, it was the post on oral sex in fruitbats.
Check out the other semi-finalists, here.
And also congratulations to my sciblings (and former sciblings) who also made the semi-finals: Ed Yong, Scicurious, Eric Johnson, and Christie Wilcox!
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It's Saturday on the second weekend of the college football season.
You have to like the U.S. chances in advancing to the semi-finals of the World Cup. That's right, the semi-finals. If the U.S. beats Ghana on Saturday--and they should be a favorite--they play the winner of Uruguay and S. Korea in the quarterfinals.
Please Note: There is an update to this post below the fold with the semifinal matchups.
Here are the 8 teams to make the quarterfinals. I don't know what the quarterfinal matchups are, or who they beat in octofinals to get there:
Pharyngula is in the semi-finals for another: Best Single Issue Blog. I wonder what that single issue is?