Today is a contest day. First up: any ScienceBlog readers currently at the University of British Columbia?

If so, please say "hello."

And just to make it a bit more interesting, I'll treat the first five commenters currently at UBC to a cup of coffee. Those on board first can then give me an email at tscq@interchange.ubc.ca. No creationists or scientology recruiters please...

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