August 20, 2012

$10,000 bucks

Under two weeks left for submissions for the Unz Prize:
As a means of publicizing the vast quantity of high-quality content material uniquely available on its recently released website, UNZ.org is announcing a historical research competition. 
A First Prize of $10,000 and several other cash prizes will be awarded for the most significant and interesting discussion or analysis of some historical issue based on the published source material provided at UNZ.org.  All entries must be received by August 31, 2012, and awards will be made by September 30, 2012. 
Interested participants should examine the rules, read the description of the available content source material, and then register for the competition. 
Good luck!

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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/20/12, 5:03 PM

    Not worth entering if you need to work for a living. Also the judging criterion will be off beat. Better to target this at high school or college students.

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  2. anony-mouse8/20/12, 5:22 PM

    Don't enter. This will allow Steve a better chance at winning.

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  3. Anonymous8/20/12, 5:39 PM

    Unz should fund technology prize awards. Sort of like the Longitude Prize:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize

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  4. Anonymous8/20/12, 6:21 PM

    Ron Unz deserved to be a more successful poltician...

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  5. Andre8/20/12, 7:09 PM

    I love how it needs to be sufficiently accurate as to be retained by Wikipedia editors. From what I have observed, accuracy reversely correlates with acceptance by Wikipedia editors if the comments aren't politically correct.

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  6. Anonymous8/20/12, 7:23 PM

    isteve readers don't seem to have ambition when it comes to financial incentive....

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  7. Anonymous8/20/12, 7:46 PM

    I'll take the Fonz over the Unz.

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  8. Auntie Analogue8/20/12, 9:01 PM

    I'd lay odds of eight to five that the winning entry will prove to be Unzpectacular. Any takers?!

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  9. TGGP8/20/12, 9:49 PM

    Mencius Moldbug has expressed his disdain for Unz & his magazine, but it seems to me with all his raving about how people don't understand the past because they don't read what people back then wrote hence his need to dump text from Google Books, he'd be the perfect person for this.

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  10. Anonymous8/20/12, 11:08 PM

    How did Thomas Fleming of Chronicles Magazine end up writing for The Daily Mail?

    http://fleming.dailymail.co.uk/

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  11. Anonymous8/21/12, 11:32 AM

    "Mencius Moldbug has expressed his disdain for Unz & his magazine, but it seems to me with all his raving about how people don't understand the past because they don't read what people back then wrote hence his need to dump text from Google Books, he'd be the perfect person for this."

    Look at the folks judging the competition. I don't think they'd be sympathetic to MM's perspectives...

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  12. not a hacker8/21/12, 2:12 PM

    How did Thomas Fleming of Chronicles Magazine end up writing for The Daily Mail?

    The Brits want caustic, and now that Hitchens is gone, is there any other U.S. writer who is such? I guess Paul Gottfried.

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