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By clock on October 1, 2008.

The monthly ritual - the choiciest posts (out of a total of 325) of September:

Obama answers science questions
Compare and Contrast, Part 6
Advice To Young Bloggers
Are they cheap, broke, or understaffed?
Circadian Biology in PLoS ONE
Bats, Bats, Bats!
What kinds of posts bring traffic?
ScienceOnline'09 - Registration is Open!
Spaceship toilet - how does it work?
ACTION: let's kill this anti-OA bill before it's even born!
Bloggers at the Zoo!
A non-biological biological clock
Help Biology teachers use blogs in the classroom
'Advancing Science Through Conversations' article - summary of the blogospheric responses
Zerhouni to step down
The Divine Right of Capital
'If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed'
Do we need a bloggers ethics panel?
Shimmering Bees
Five stages of a blogger's life
'Normal' body temperature? Not really.
Aerosteon riocoloradensis - the new dinosaur with hollow bones
The hook-up culture
Bats eat birds - join the discussion
Inside Duke Medicine
Open Laboratory 2008 - submissions so far

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