Ideas For New Competitions?

[Tormod]

It's been a long time since the last time we had a real competition here at Hypography Science Forums.

 

Ideas? New photo contest? Best science blog entry?

[theblackalchemist]

Best tutorial uploaded?

 

EDIT:

 

 

Best quizzes, Best painting on a blank canvas in photoshop, best flash usage , best logo design, etc..

 

 

Regards,

TBA

[Vox]

It's been a long time since the last time we had a real competition here at Hypography Science Forums.

 

Ideas? New photo contest? Best science blog entry?

 

How about; “(my) best mistake" competition. I have a impression that making a mistake is a taboo and stimagmatized throughout education so it would be refreshing to see how people have benefitted from the best mistake(s) they ever made. This could slightly reduce our fears to make mistakes.

[Tormod]

How about; “(my) best mistake" competition. I

 

So a sort of essay contest? Or just brief posts telling about the mistakes?

[Vox]

So a sort of essay contest? Or just brief posts telling about the mistakes?

 

Short description would be preferred, impatient we are ;-)

 

Then again, this might be too sensitive topic to gain support.

[Tormod]

I think it's a great idea, so it's on the list of what we could do.

 

What other things can we do? We need to populate our reviewed science link collection again (The old one was rotting...full of dead links) and it would be cool to have a science link collection contest. So a science link hunt, perhaps?

[Vox]

I think it's a great idea, so it's on the list of what we could do.

 

What other things can we do? We need to populate our reviewed science link collection again (The old one was rotting...full of dead links) and it would be cool to have a science link collection contest. So a science link hunt, perhaps?

 

That sounds useful and practical, challenge is how to keep it contemporary and fresh set of links also "tomorrow"

[Tormod]

Good point. I don't think we really need to build yet another link directory right now...it takes a lot of time and effort.

 

Maybe we could find great links at http://www.delicious.com/ and just tag them with "hypography", and use an RSS importer to show them. Not 100% sure how we could turn that into a contest, though. :)

[sanctus]

This depends on how our latex is working, but there is still the latex-competition pending which i proposed a few years back and then we never got round in implementing it.

[Tormod]

A Latex competition would be cool. We could make t-shirts of the winning equation (and/or non-equation). :)

[paigetheoracle]

How about; “(my) best mistake" competition. I have a impression that making a mistake is a taboo and stimagmatized throughout education so it would be refreshing to see how people have benefitted from the best mistake(s) they ever made. This could slightly reduce our fears to make mistakes.

 

I wouldn't call this my 'best' mistake but I would point out that it woke me up to the fact that I had possibly made one, after the event. We had our old dog put down because we thought it had renal failure (peeing all over the place and not being able to control its bladder). After this had happened I fed the special diet food the vet had given us, to the other two dogs: Yes, you guessed it - they both immediately became incontinent too, even though they were both young dogs (The old lab had bladder stones that needed flushing out and this special diet was for this. Ergo I need not have put her down, probably (massive guilt problems for a year afterwards but learned the lesson).

[Aethelwulf]

A Latex competition would be cool. We could make t-shirts of the winning equation (and/or non-equation). :)

 

I know what equation I would write... the equation which describes the forces under the standard model... the ''master equation.''

[Aethelwulf]

Best tutorial uploaded?

 

 

I prefer this idea.

[Guest MacPhee]

I prefer this idea.

 

If it's OK, I wish to put forward a thought, which might possibly gain approval. It's this:

 

What about a trial by our ruling guys on Hypography, to find out who can submit long posts which comply with strict limitations - to wit:

 

1. All posts must contain good stuff on Physics, or Astronomy, or Biology - or anything which has to do with study, and scholarship.

But no rubbish! What's in individual posts must nourish our minds. And grant us insights.

 

2. No post can contain that particular symbol which ranks at position 5 in our list of common Roman glyphs.

 

How long could such a post go on - who would win?

[Eclogite]

So you are proposing a non-email.

[Guest MacPhee]

That's just so - you got it bang to rights!

 

My notion boils down to this: how much valid information, data and points for discussion, could a post which is void of that graphical symbol, transmit?

 

Obviously, many topics would find difficulty straight away. Thus, talking about our own world, with all its various living organisms, plants and animals, and classifications, might inhibit, and initially foil a biologist.

 

But bold activity of sharp minds, would no doubt find a way to sally forth. And transfix us with long, glorious, loquacious communications!