{"id":8160,"date":"2016-08-27T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2016-08-29T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:35:36","slug":"id-caption-contest-winner-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/id-caption-contest-winner-new\/2016\/08\/27\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cartoon Caption Contest #1 Winner &#8212; and a New Contest for the End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All blogs worth the price of admission have a sidebar, and this one is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Critical components include (but are not limited to) the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The <em>Option to Subscribe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Go ahead, you know you want to. It&#8217;s right over there to the right. Just enter your email address and click subscribe &#8212; no username, password, or two-step verification required. Then, kind of like colonization resistance, the notifications you&#8217;ll get of a latest post here will help crowd out those dubious invitations to conferences in China, Dubai, or Malaysia, the requests to submit\u00a0papers for the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulSaxMD\/status\/765859662105378821\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases<\/a><\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0and the people who are trying to sell us CRISPR reagents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The <em>Search Box<\/em><\/strong>, where you can enter diverse topics such as &#8220;Should I curbside ID about whether to give the rabies vaccine?&#8221; or &#8220;Why does he hate the term HAART?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The <em>Most Popular Posts<\/em><\/strong> list, which here is called, &#8220;Most Commented,&#8221; with another tab for &#8220;Most Read.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/most-commented.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8163\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/most-commented.jpg\" alt=\"most commented!\" width=\"314\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/most-commented.jpg 314w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/most-commented-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case it wasn&#8217;t obvious enough, I&#8217;ve highlighted that the first ID Cartoon Caption contest drew quite a response. If we add in entries\u00a0that were sent to me directly via email, there were well over 200 submissions. Not bad for a debut performance.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/id-cartoon-caption-contest-closed-time-vote\/2016\/06\/25\/\" target=\"_blank\">the winner of ID Cartoon Caption Contest #1<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8110\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8110\" class=\"wp-image-8110 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats.png\" alt=\"LabCoats\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats.png 2667w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/LabCoats-1024x768.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking for diversity in our staff, not biodiversity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The winner was\u00a0Dr. Michael Dantzer, who has kindly given me permission to use his real name (I assume it&#8217;s his real name). As promised, he gets a free lifetime subscription to this blog and, of course, lasting fame and fortune.<\/p>\n<p>He also sent me a nice note praising my excellent sense of humor in picking his entry as a finalist. It should be noted, however, that the selection of his entry as a finalist relied not so much on my subjective sense of what&#8217;s funny, but a highly complex algorithm that includes not only scientifically validated humor criteria but also gas liquid chromatography and multiplex PCR.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s high time for a new contest. Summer is about to end, Labor Day cookouts loom, and we must be vigilant to the ever\u00a0rising threat of both foodborne pathogens and carcinogenic heterocyclic amines:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/BurgerFireFinalBW.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8164\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/BurgerFireFinalBW.png\" alt=\"BurgerFireFinalBW\" width=\"543\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/BurgerFireFinalBW.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/BurgerFireFinalBW-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go at it. Put your entries in the comments section (preferred), on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulSaxMD\/status\/769513471805382656\" target=\"_blank\">my Twitter feed<\/a>, or email it\u00a0directly to\u00a0id.caption@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Drawing by Anne Sax, of course.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All blogs worth the price of admission have a sidebar, and this one is no exception. Critical components include (but are not limited to) the following: The Option to Subscribe\u00a0&#8212; Go ahead, you know you want to. It&#8217;s right over there to the right. 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