THEME: SCI

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
June 19, 1994	69	LAYING DOWN THE LAW	Send us some exciting new principles that explain why things happen they way they happen.	SCI	Text file | Contest image
April 2, 1995	107	CLUSTERS' LAST STAND	Take an actual star cluster, redraw the lines into a different image, and give it a new name.	SCI	Text file | Contest image
July 21, 1996	175	FOSSIL FOOLS	What would aliens mistakenly conclude about us from any of the provided items?	SCI	Text file | Contest image
January 19, 1997	201	THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE	Come up with a new element and its symbol, and provide a brief description of its chemical or physical properties.	SCI	Text file | Contest image
March 9, 1997	208	SEND IN THE CLONES	Suggest questions a commission to investigate the moral, legal and practical question raised by cloning might consider.	POL REL SCI	Text file | Contest image
May 23, 1999	323	THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD INVITATIONAL	Come up with not-quite-ready inventions, past or present.	SCI BUS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 2, 2000	356 (XXIII)	Med Icks	Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat.	SCI	Text file | Contest image
January 21, 2001	385 (LII)	Proceed Gingerly	What is the still-secret invention, code-name "Ginger", that is said to meet the provided criteria?	SCI	Text file | Contest image
March 14, 2004	549	Show Us Your Best Quantities	Come up with novel units of measure, and explain or quantify them.	SCI	Text file
March 7, 2009	807	Pretty Graphic Expressions	Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression.	SCI	Text file | Post e-version
April 11, 2009	812	Rx-Related Humor	Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact."	SCI TRI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 8, 2010	868	Count the ways	Give us some musings of a technical wonk.	SCI	Text file | Contest image
July 17, 2010	878	Safety in blunders	Tell us a way to make the nation more secure.	SCI POL	Text file
June 12, 2011	923	Chemical Wordfare	Create a new chemical element or other chemical term.	SCI	Text file
April 22, 2012	968	Take us for grants	Come up with a proposal to the National Science Foundation or other research-funding organization for a study based on a stupid hypothesis.	SCI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 14, 2017	1227	Celebrate ortho-diversity!	Name and describe a new life form -- and no letter in the term may be used twice. (Conversational text)	LET SCI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 9, 2017	1235	The Sound of Science	Write humorous lyrics on the subject of science or technology, set to a well-known tune. (Conversational text)	POE SCI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 5, 2017	1252	It's a med, med, med, med world	Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat. (Conversational text)	SCI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 10, 2019	1322	Back to the drawing board	Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out.	SCI BUS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jeffrey Contompasis	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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