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Art ‘n Shit Crescat Graffiti, Take 2 Quinn Dombrowski, student scrawl-chronicler extraordinaire, revisits her graffiti analysis: This time, with even more science! by 02 February 2011 |
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History of Science This Has All Happened Before, and It Will All Happen Again: Mitochondrial Eve Comes of Age A look back at the science that taught us where—or who—we came from. by 13 October 2010 |
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Portraits From Gyroscopes to Gecko Glue: An Inventor’s Guide to Loving Life Meet Kimberly Turner, a fashion plate, competitive cyclist, and dog trainer...who also happens to be an engineer. by 29 September 2010 |
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Creature Feature Projectile Poop: Why Some Caterpillars Go Ballistic(ally) Scientists answer the age-old question: Why do certain species of caterpillar fling their poop far and wide? by 17 August 2010 |
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History of Science Don’t Call it a Comeback: Creationism Evolves The final piece in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment. by 13 August 2010 |
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History of Science Of Monkeys and Men: The Trial(s) of the Century The second in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment. by 09 August 2010 |
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History of Science Thy Will Be Done, Again and Again: The “Evolution” of Creationism in America The first in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment. by 04 August 2010 |
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Adventures Among Ants: What Marauders and Amazons Teach Us About Being Human Rachel Zurer reviews a new myrmecological tome by Mark Moffett. by 07 July 2010 |
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History of Science The Tippling Woodpecker A 1911 nature study guide waxes lyrical about the yellow-bellied sapsucker's alcoholism. by 27 June 2010 |
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Art ‘n Shit Q&A: Grace White A Paper Whisperer Explains Why Your Love Letters Hate Your Fingers by 07 June 2010 |
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Health Not Right in the Head: An Escalating List of Traumatic Brain Injuries In which we discover an amazing array of objects that have accidentally penetrated people's skulls and failed to kill them. by 28 May 2010 |
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Human Nature Mad or Machine? How Modern Technology Shapes and Mirrors Delusional Beliefs by 26 April 2010 |
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Human Nature If I May Be So BOLD: How Charisma Can Make You Hand Over Your Brain Who would you let take over your thoughts? by 14 April 2010 |
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Material Science Will We Fry Like Bacon When the Poles Flip? Are Earth’s magnetic fields set to reverse? And will life as we know it be pooched when that happens? by 30 March 2010 |
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Human Nature Do Be So Sentimental Studies show that nostalgia has powerful evolutionary functions. by 15 March 2010 |
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Pop Culture Please Pass the Astragalus Inkling tackles the science behind a new science-fiction novel. by 04 March 2010 |
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Art ‘n Shit Q&A: Diana Sudyka A conversation about birds, art, science, and history. by 26 February 2010 |
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Material Science More Valentine’s Gifts for Scientist-Types 10 + 1 Ideas For Nerdy Romantics by 12 February 2010 |
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Human Nature Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library by 03 February 2010 |
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Human Nature Women’s Fliberation Will Big Pharma's female libido-booster Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill? by 27 January 2010 |
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Pop Culture Book Club: The Happiness Project What do you see if you put your own happiness under the microscope? Gretchen Rubin lets us know as she chases the bluebird. by 19 January 2010 |
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Portraits Q&A: Phillip Chee A dedicated astrophotographer explains how he opens up the skies. by 12 January 2010 |
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Creature Feature Lessons from the Sea Squirt Still trying to "find yourself"? If the sea squirt can do it, so can you. by 09 January 2010 |
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Underwired Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost Moments Observation changes even the smallest of observed particles. Can it change moments and memories, too? by 28 December 2009 |
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Creature Feature Slippery Negotiations in a Banana Republic Apes do negotiate—just not, apparently, with Ronald Reagan. by 18 December 2009 |
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Pop Culture The Ecological Consequences of Vampirism AKA, Wherein an Ecologist takes down New Moon by 30 November 2009 |
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Green & Crunchy Sheep Poo Paper: Saves Trees, Fertilizes Crops, Revives Dying Epistolary Art With a product name like this, YOU CANNOT FAIL. by 25 November 2009 |
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Creature Feature The Secret Life of Bed Bugs Think Sex in the City is wicked? It doesn't hold a candle to the kinky things bed bugs get up to. by 18 November 2009 |
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Human Nature Turning a Blind Eye to Blindness The damage to their visual cortex means there's no way these patients can see. Why do they deny they're blind? by 10 November 2009 |
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Human Nature The Promise and Perils of Brain Massage Deep brain stimulation offers hope to many patients, but changing the brain’s signals can have unintended effects. by 07 October 2009 |
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Health Raising the (Apparently) Dead A partial and eclectic history of resuscitation techniques. by 07 October 2009 |
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Health Stress Everlasting: The Cautionary Tale of Stressed-Out Bunnies Could the seminal life cycle of snowshoe hares be explained by shell shock? by 20 November 2008 |
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Green & Crunchy The Kinda Food Where Greens Are Always Tastier Green cuisine goes a long way for your belly and the environment. by 12 August 2008 |
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Realpolitik The Ultimate Problemsolver: Computer + Evolution = Genius Computers using evolutionary algorithms are building NASA antennas, solving global warming and entertaining gamers. by 08 July 2008 |
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Health How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death Looks like the messy and deadly river of blood that flows from some trauma patients can be staunched. by 19 June 2008 |
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Human Nature Nurture Your Inner Psychic - No Paranormal Powers Required! How everyday mind reading skills help us navigate - or get lost in - the stormy landscape of human interactions by 17 May 2008 |
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Pop Culture Babe Scientists on Film For best results in science, wear short shorts. And be sure your deep intellect is matched by deep cleavage. by 06 May 2008 |
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Human Nature What Ever Happened to Baby Albert? What happens when megalomanaical psychologists are allowed to experiment on babies with no ethical review board. by 18 April 2008 |
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Human Nature The (Real) Sound of Silence Science shows what we all instinctively know: pauses in music speak loudly to the brain. by 19 March 2008 |
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Human Nature Science’s Beef With A Beard All the most illustrious scientists had them. So why are they such bad news in the lab? by 05 March 2008 |
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Pros and Cons of Raw Milk: Part Deux Might prevent allergies, could possibly fight an iota of cancer, but don't expect it to do your taxes or anything by 20 February 2008 |
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Material Science Material Science: Valentine’s day gifts for your lady scientist Showering the science geekette with lovey dovey pretty things has never been easier by 13 February 2008 |
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Columbus’ Sailors Culprit for Syphilis Epidemic Tit for twat: Syphilis in exchange for Smallpox by 07 February 2008 |
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Pop Culture Girl Guides Do Science! Girl Guides Canada has introduced "Physics," "Chemistry," and "Engineering" badges. Stephanie Gower celebrates with her troop. by 31 January 2008 |
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Green & Crunchy Is There Room for Meat in a Green Diet? Admit you're emitting, then adjust what you ingest by 17 January 2008 |
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Green & Crunchy Climate Change Anxiety Disorder: On the street or in my head? As the world warms up, are we sweating it too much? by 16 January 2008 |
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Human Nature Of Stress and Periods Your psychological well being is probably not the key to fertility. by 08 January 2008 |
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Health Raw Milk…clean and healthy? by 18 December 2007 |
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Pop Culture Under the Underground Nerdcore Movement: Meet Baddd Spellah, Kickass Nerdcore Music Producer How Nerdcore's Most Prolific Producer Makes Magic Happen by 06 December 2007 |
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Health The Pros and Cons of Sushi Bursting with happy fats and squirming with paralyzing pathogens, sushi has a little something for everyone. by 28 November 2007 |
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Material Science Material Science: Bathe in Science! Puzzle Science out! Science-inspired objects beckon gift givers... by 21 November 2007 |
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Portraits The Frozen Land of Rubies: Arctic Gem Boom Reaches Greenland Canada's diamonds fast rose to dominate the world market. Are Greenland's rubies next? by 14 November 2007 |
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Funny ha ha Say “Good Boy” to Hypertension A comparative analysis of drugs versus dogs for the treatment of high blood pressure. No really. by 06 November 2007 |
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Human Nature The Calculus of Saying “I Love You” Why you should never date man who knows more math than you. by 13 October 2007 |
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Human Nature Miscarriage Sadly, one more thing to expect when you're expecting by 27 September 2007 |
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Fun with Food Battered to Perfection: The Science of Fish n’ Chips by 23 September 2007 |
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Your Health This (Tasty) Week Advice for a long life: eat dinner as a family, avoid bagged lettuce and stay away from stevia. by 21 September 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Guiltess Air Travel You don't need to buy carbon offsets, just take in a little perspective by 14 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (British) Week An ode to my former home country. by 03 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Superficial) Week Advice for a long life: don't get boob implants, keep kids away from McDonald's, don't murder whites, and consider pit lipo by 10 August 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Sculpting Toward Truth - What Happens When A Biology Professor Takes Chisel to Stone Some art is cosmic; this art is protoplasmic by 07 August 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Delusional) Week Advice for a long life: smoke cigarettes instead of weed, eat blue corn tortillas, ditch lite beer and go straight for whisky by 03 August 2007 |
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Human Nature Who Needs a Grandpa? The powerful helping hand of grandmothers has shaped human lifespan, but grandfathers were too busy scoring chicks. by 02 August 2007 |
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Creature Feature ‘Slow and Steady’ Does Not Win the Date Conservation biologists turn to DNA tests in hopes of tickling a tortoise's fancy by 30 July 2007 |
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Human Nature The Evolution of the White Mustache Our love of milk goes back thousands of years. But today, does it do a body any more good than bad? by 18 July 2007 |
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Human Nature Funny, I Only Like Him When He’s Upwind Surreptitious odors may be the key to wild and sexy behavior in fruit flies, mice, and people by 16 July 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Economical Week Advice for a long life: be rich, live in a nice 'hood, get health insurance, leave Missouri, and use the trampoline with care. by 13 July 2007 |
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Creature Feature Knockout of the Week: Allergy Molecule Makes You Dumb by 11 July 2007 |
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Pop Culture Battle of the Blabbers A new study shows men and women are equally gabby by 05 July 2007 |
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Fun with Food It Figures: The numbers behind your dinner Food is for math, not eating. by 26 June 2007 |
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Realpolitik WWII Atomic Secrets See the Light of Day Nobelist James Chadwick realized atomic research had dire implications - so he sealed it away for more than 60 years by 21 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (No Shit Sherlock) Week Advice for a long life: Don't over-retire, give your doctor the afternoon off and sleep late during the week, too by 15 June 2007 |
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Human Nature Book Club: The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine Louann Brizendine's book "The Female Brain" frankly pisses Sandra Kiume off. Here's why. by 13 June 2007 |
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Fun with Food How Nintendo Taught Me to Slice and Dice Our reporter pulls a Japanese-style potato salad out of a handheld video game by 11 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Sinful) Week Advice for a long pre-afterlife: steer clear of wrath, lust, and sharkfin soup -and get thee to a wine carafe instead by 08 June 2007 |
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Health New Tricks for the Little White Pill Add colon cancer to the list of maladies that aspirin keeps at bay - but how much is too much? by 06 June 2007 |
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Fun with Food Mars Needs Lunchboxes What will Mars astronauts take with them? Pretty much any dish that can reach five years of age and not taste like it by 05 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Evil) Week Advice for a long life: check if you Doc is a phony and avoid grease when on ecstacy. by 01 June 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy The Soap-free Green Laundry Revolution Let pollutant-free "eco balls" ricochet your stains away by 30 May 2007 |
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Pop Culture It Figures: What the Numbers Say This Week Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 29 May 2007 |
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Creature Feature When the Pursuit of Science Endangers Species What happens when our thirst for knowledge drains some animal populations dry? by 28 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Experienced) Week Advice for a long life: read your proctologist's resume, give birth early in mega-hospitals, and use a daycare with benefits by 25 May 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Jill Bolte Taylor The neurobiologist describes how a debilitating stroke gave her the chance to learn a new way of thinking by 24 May 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit The Artist’s Eyeball A physician looks at impressionist paintings and sees art mixed up with chronic eyeball pathologies by 23 May 2007 |
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Realpolitik Numbers Gone Wild Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 22 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Emotional) Week Advice for a long life: quit your thankless job (as U.S. Press Secretary), cheer up granny and mend your broken heart by 18 May 2007 |
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Health Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? You're not a hopeless dieter, you're a precision evolutionary famine-surviving machine by 17 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Beautiful) Week Advice for a long life: Botox your pits, celebrate your tresses, and read the literature before your circumcision by 11 May 2007 |
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Human Nature This is Your Teenager’s Brain on Drugs Some antidepressants developed for adults can turn dangerous when they're prescribed for the under-24 crowd. Kind of. by 10 May 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Jodi Lomask A modern dancer and her troupe turn their attention to science ... and really big trees by 09 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alternative) Week Advice for a long life: Do yoga! Go herbal! Switch hands! Conform! by 02 May 2007 |
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Human Nature On the Origin of Grandmas They pinch your cheeks, knit you sweaters and feed you mountains of mashed potatoes. Is that why you're still alive? by 02 May 2007 |
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Pop Culture Der Schwarm: A Geoscientific Page-Turner German thriller plants one foot firmly in real science - the other gets chewed by clairvoyant, needle-toothed methane worms by 01 May 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Apple’s Beryllium Cremation Damages Environment? All those cute Apple gadgets are making a dangerous mess in Asian landfills, according to Greenpeace by 01 May 2007 |
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Underwired The Buyer’s Guide to Nanotech New technology allows nanoparticles to dramatically magnify price tags - but what else do they do? Here's your guide by 30 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week Advice for a long life: Drink hard, cut the carbs, get migraines and don't believe everything they tell you in Texas by 27 April 2007 |
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Realpolitik Space Race: The Sequel The U.S. won the race to the Moon. Mars is shaping up to be a different story. by 26 April 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Do Biodegradable Bags Make Disposable Ones OK? A San Francisco law wants zero emissions out of your shopping bag, but ignores how many go into it by 25 April 2007 |
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Fun with Food Have the Good Taste to Quit Smoking Like O.J. and toothpaste, a healthy diet may make cigarettes taste worse – despite Big Tobacco's best efforts by 24 April 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Marcia McNutt Marcia McNutt is a superstar in a submersible research vehicle. And she wants to encourage other girls to be just like her by 23 April 2007 |
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