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| launch date = | current status = Online | alexa = }} ''3 Quarks Daily (3QD)'' is an online news aggregator and blog that curates commentary, essays, and multimedia from high quality periodicals, newspapers, journals, and blogs. The focus is on literature, the arts, politics, current affairs, science, philosophy, gossip–and, as stated on their web site–"anything else we deem inherently fascinating." Each day of the week from Tuesday through Sunday features about a dozen items culled from the World Wide Web. Each Monday is devoted to an online magazine which has essays and other previously unpublished content by editors and guest columnists.〔(An Audio Interview with Abbas Raza of ''3 Quarks Daily'' ), By Adam Kampe, National Endowment for the Arts Magazine〕 The stated aim of ''3QD'' is to offer “a one-stop intellectual surfing experience by culling good stuff from all over and putting it in one place.”〔(About ''3 Quarks Daily'' )〕 ''3 Quarks Daily'' also awards annual prizes, called “quarks,” for exceptional writing in the blogosphere, as well as organizing quarterly online symposia on international issues. The blog commands a significant readership and readers follow it in a variety of ways: through an email subscription and an RSS feed, as well as through social media updates via Twitter〔(''3 Quarks Daily'' on Twitter )〕 and Facebook.〔(''3 Quarks Daily'' on Facebook )〕 == History == Author, engineer, and philosopher S. Abbas Raza founded ''3 Quarks Daily'' in 2004 to serve as a conduit for content across disciplines for the web-based intellectual everyman.〔(Boston Review: S. Abbas Raza )〕 Unlike similar blogs of the time, such as Arts & Letters Daily and Andrew Sullivan's ''The Daily Dish'', 3QD would explore topics beyond the humanities and feature science content as well as commentary on current events. In fact, Abbas Raza says that Arts & Letters Daily, "was one of the main inspirations for my starting ''3 Quarks Daily''."〔(''What will be the fate of Arts & Letters Daily?'' ) by Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2010〕 The first post was on Saturday, July 31, 2004 and featured the 1904 Constantine Cavafy poem ''Waiting for the Barbarians''.〔(3QD posting for Saturday, July 31, 2004 )〕 Since then, ''3 Quarks Daily'' has culled content from hundreds of sources, from blogs such as Salon, Science Daily, and The Huffington Post, from major publications such as ''The New York Times'', ''Nature'', and ''The Guardian'', to smaller outlets such as ''Guernica Magazine'', ''The Awl'', and ''The American Scholar''. The name ''3 Quarks Daily'' comes from the elementary nuclear particles of physics which in turn were named after the word ''quark'' which James Joyce had used in Finnegans Wake.〔 Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark The confluence of references to both science and literature in a single word suited the intent of the blog perfectly and the founders also thought that the name would be short and memorable. They named their top three annual prizes the ''Top Quark'' (1st), the ''Strange Quark'' (2nd), and the ''Charm Quark'' (3rd). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「3 Quarks Daily」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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