Send GrrlScientist to Antarctica!

I'm really not being mean and trying to banish a fellow science blogger to some barren, frigid desolation — hey, that's where I live! — but she's volunteering to leave New York for a month to live in Antarctica. All you have to do is vote for her essay, and presto, maybe they'll ship her off to somewhere near the south pole. Cool.

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