Around this time of year, a lot of blogs list their 10 most popular posts of the past year. I was thinking about doing that here… but I didn’t have the foresight to make my blog software log page views, so I have no idea what posts are the most popular. Instead, here are my somewhat arbitrarily selected favorite 12 posts of 2012, out of the 78 total posts I made this year:

• PROTECT-IP: the source
• Scale invariance and the power law
• Degrees of freedom: mechanical vs. thermal
• Square wheels
• Particles gone wild: the Higgs mechanism, uncensored
• Results from HPT 2012
• The win-more effect of indirect elections
• B meson decay and the calculation of cross sections
• B meson oscillations and the CPT theorem
• The Gini coefficient for distribution inequality
• Color glass condensate
• Yes Virginia, the universe is (probably) real

All things considered, I think it was a good year for blog posts. But 2013 can be even better! Happy new year!