Scientific American is running its Open Lab science blog competition, where readers submit blog posts that they have come across over the last 12 months.  The best are turned into an E-book (you can find the previous editions here).  Anyway, somebody has apparently nominated my post on “Why are there imperfect mimics?” (thanks, whoever you are!).  I was excited until I saw the field of 269 other entries and realised I didn’t stand a cat in hell’s chance…  There are some amazing people who have been nominated, so you should all go and check out my vanquishers!  Oh, and the deadline is midnight EDT tonight (1st October) so…