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Vote In The 2025 Non-Book Review Contest

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Scott opens voting for the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest finalists, listing all thirteen entries and providing a link to the ranked-choice voting form. Longer summary
Scott Alexander announces voting for the 2025 Non-Book Review Contest finalists, providing links to all thirteen finalist entries and the voting form. The post lists the diverse topics of the finalists, ranging from education and science to personal experiences and historical events. Voting will use ranked choice format where voters pick their top three choices, and closes on October 13. Shorter summary

If you’ve read the finalists of this year’s non-book review contest, vote for your favorite here. Voting will close end of day on Monday, October 13. This year is back to ranked choice voting; vote for your first, second, and third favorite reviews.

In case you need a refresher, here are the finalists, in order of appearance:

1: Alpha School
2: School
3: Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia
4: Islamic Geometric Patterns in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
5: The Astral Codex Tex Commentariat
6: Joan of Arc
7: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
8: Dating Men In The Bay Area
9: Ollantay
10: Participation In Phase I Clinical Pharmaceutical Research
11: The Synaptic Plasticity And Memory Hypothesis
12: Project Xanadu - The Internet That Might Have Been
13: The Russo-Ukrainian War

Prediction market is here, but don’t peek until after you’ve voted.

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