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- Third annual Experimental History Blog Post Competition had 68 submissions from diverse backgrounds.
- All winners were verified as 100% human-written using Pangram AI detector.
- First place ($500): 'How to Survive Boiling Water' by Jane Cook, an effort post about probiotic bacteria.
- Second place ($250): 'Magical Constitutionalism' by Ricardo López Cordero, a short post about vape in constitutions.
- Third place ($100): 'Remembering Indonesia from My Grandpa' by Melanie Hsieh, exploring Chinese-Indonesian roots.
- Honorable mentions include posts on memory, fish farts, chatbot conversations, and automatic toilets.
- The competition highlights the value of curation in surfacing new writers.