Send a ScienceBlogger to Antarctica (and back)

By razib on September 21, 2009.

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The most important single act you can carry out period.

This is it. Don't mess this up. It isn't that common that a single event can have a cascading effect on so many things. And if it does, such an event would not be that likely to have an entirely negative effect on all it touches. But, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States…

DonorsChoose: you can donate $1.5 million without spending a penny

As I alluded to in the previous post, many science bloggers like us are currently running challenges to readers to donate to projects at DonorsChoose.org. This great organization has been a sponsoring clearinghouse for all kinds of educational projects proposed by US public schoolteachers, many…

Let's do this thing! Only a couple of more hours left!!!

Hurry up and vote for Ana if you have done so yet today! And if you have, drive to the nearest coffee shop you've not been to lately and vote for her there!!!!!!! She's gaining momentum. Let's do this thing! This photo by Ben Zvan of Analiese Miller, who is also known as The Anthropologist,…

C'mon guys!

I know, I know - there are still 3 days left of voting on the 3 Quark's Daily Science Blogging Prize. I shouldn't be sweating it yet. But c'mon - we're right on the cusp of the top 20 with A Marine Biologist's Story AND The End Of The Age Of Man! I'm biting my nails watching the numbers slowly…

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