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September 28, 2009
Category: Art
From New Scientist: Iranian photographer Babak Tafreshi has won the 2009 Lennart Nilsson scientific photography prize. According to the award panel, his images "reclaim a night sky that most modern people have lost"...
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September 22, 2009
Category: Singh vs BCA
Charity Sense About Science are running a campaign to stop libel laws silencing legitimate scientific debate in the UK. Currently producer and author Simon Singh is facing a £100,000 legal bill for an article he wrote questioning the effectiveness of...
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September 10, 2009
Category: Video
Vanessa of NatureBreak.org came back from Belize with an unwelcome hitch-hiker - a parasitic botfly larvae that had burrowed into her scalp. So she did what any great blogger would do: made a very well-produced video showing its eviction. Not...
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September 9, 2009
Category: General
These days I get excited when I see any big science news story break because I know it's only a matter of time before it appears in delightfully skewed fashion on the Save Your Breath for Running Ponies blog. Combining...
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Category: 9
It's with some sadness that I announce the last day of prize-winning here at SciencePunk. As well as the final in this series of reward-based thought experiments, it's also the day in which I will decide the five winners of...
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September 8, 2009
Category: 9
Welcome to the penultimate chance to win an exclusive coffee table book filled with high-quality prints from the Tim Burton-produced Shane-Acker created animation 9. As far as I know, it can't be bought in shops, and your best chance to...
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September 7, 2009
Category: Art
Thanks to Morbid Anatomy for this fantastic mashup: Ernest Haeckal's highly-celebrated engravings from Artforms of Nature turned into mutant beauty using a fractal generator. More images available from sub blue...
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Category: 9
Monday is another chance for all of you to win a prize! There are two books remaining, and two more chances to win. So without further ado, read on to find out how......
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September 6, 2009
Category: 9
Thanks to everyone who has taken part in the competition so far. We already have five lucky winners, we need four more! Don't forget there's also a separate contest going on at this entry, with five more prize packs to...
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September 4, 2009
Category: 9
Many thanks to everyone for their wonderful, thoughtful and altogether delightful ideas on what memories we should store for a post-apocalyptic world. Now, in case you're some knuckle-dragging moron who can't follow links or scroll down the page, or worse,...
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