Winners of the NESCent blogging competition travel awards have been announced

The winners of the NESCent blogging competition were announced yesterday.

What do the winners get? A travel grant to come to ScienceOnline2010 in January! Yes, we kept those two spots open for the winners.

And the winners are Christie Lynn Wilcox (for the post When Good Genes Go Bad) and Jeremy Yoder (for the post How it does a body good: The selective advantage of drinking milk depends where you drink it).

w00t!

Congratulations to the winners....and see you both in January!

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