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stoat | February 11, 2011 Some good news for a change. Well done chaps! Now, how about that dictatorship we're propping up in Saudi Arabia?
I didn't actually do anything useful in all this (other than copy-editing the wikipedia article, I'm sure that boosted their revolutionary fervour) but I was rooting for them.
Brian was more useful.
On a lighter note: don't try this at home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjiw1VcPGU
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* Egypt's Mubarak resigns as leader (BBC)
grrlscientist | June 11, 2009After this little bit of good news, it seems almost gluttonous of me to tell you that I have a little more good news to share with you. Yesterday, while I languished at home, ill and without stable or consistent wireless access, I finally managed to access email .. and when I did, I learned that ...
I received an email from the book reviews editor at Science magazine, asking me to write (what else?) .. a book review. Science, you say .. Do you mean ... ?
Why yes, I do mean ... !
The editor emailed me to ask if I'd write a review of a particular book, Birdscapes: Birds in Our…