Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners

photo cred: my dad

This is the third annual Experimental History Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree, where people send me their best new blog posts and I reward my favorites with praise and cash.

This year, I got 68 submissions from folks all over the world, including visual artists, consultants, high schoolers, economists, engineers, lawyers, and all sorts of pseudonymous internet weirdos.

For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector. 1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written. And here they are:

FIRST PLACE ($500): How to Survive Boiling Water by

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