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The '''Joshua Lederberg Memorial Science Tournament: Of Plasmids and People''' is a science side event written by [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Stevejon Guth]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Alejandro Lopez-Lago]], [[Bruce Arthur]], [[Zhao Zhang]], and [[Evan Silberman]]. It features the following distribution
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The '''Joshua Lederberg Memorial Science Tournament: Of Plasmids and People''' is a science side event written by [[Eric Mukherjee]], [[Stevejon Guth]], [[Andrew Hart]], [[Alejandro Lopez-Lago]], [[Bruce Arthur]], [[Zhao Zhang]], and [[Mike Cheyne]]. It's approximately of ACF Nationals difficulty and it features the following distribution
  
 
*5/5 Biology
 
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*1/1 Trash
  
The event is set to be played at the [[2009 Minnesota Open]], barring some unforeseen event.
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It was played at the [[2009 Minnesota Open]], with a team led by [[Seth Teitler]] winning outright. Stats can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/limozeen/lederberg_standings.html (this requires some fixing)
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The tournament was moderately well-received, with some complaints about the excess of biology and chemistry with respect to physics and other science and the prevalence of named things in physics. However, it was praised for cutting back on the relative amount of organic chemistry and branching out into other subdisciplines.
  
 
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Revision as of 13:45, 2 May 2010

The Joshua Lederberg Memorial Science Tournament: Of Plasmids and People is a science side event written by Eric Mukherjee, Stevejon Guth, Andrew Hart, Alejandro Lopez-Lago, Bruce Arthur, Zhao Zhang, and Mike Cheyne. It's approximately of ACF Nationals difficulty and it features the following distribution

  • 5/5 Biology
  • 5/5 Chemistry
  • 5/5 Physics
  • 1/1 Earth Science
  • 1/1 Astronomy
  • 1/2 or 2/1 Math
  • 1/2 or 2/1 Computer Science
  • 1/1 Other minor science/Philosophy of Science
  • 1/1 Trash

It was played at the 2009 Minnesota Open, with a team led by Seth Teitler winning outright. Stats can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/limozeen/lederberg_standings.html (this requires some fixing)

The tournament was moderately well-received, with some complaints about the excess of biology and chemistry with respect to physics and other science and the prevalence of named things in physics. However, it was praised for cutting back on the relative amount of organic chemistry and branching out into other subdisciplines.