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By clock on March 22, 2008.

Emergence Among the Trees
The actual world needs better writers
...but is it the opiate of the masses?
In safe hands
Alan Keyes and other third party news
Sometimes I Cannot Believe What We Have Allowed to be Done in Our Name
Why Aren't Students Interested in a Career in Science?, Humanistic Science Education and Air Pollution: Regional Influences & the Beijing Olympics
How to reinvent the newspaper business
How to get started in amateur astronomy. Step 1: Get real
Blogging is Subversive and Lessig's Congressional Fixup Plan
Can Polaroid Sunglasses Help You See Venus in the daytime?
Lighting Up Field Theory
Justice
Legislating Civility: No Cussing Week
Pigshit in space
Lauri Lebo's Book, 'The Devil in Dover'
The X2 Club -- massively multiplayer science is on the way!
This is what happens when physicists start drinking...
C is for Confrontation

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Open Laboratory 2010 - submissions so far
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The list is growing fast - check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own - an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art. The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions…
Clock Quotes
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At bottom every man know well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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