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jewel June 24th, 2008

My husband and I just got back from Vegas where we attended our very first TAM! Wow. We’re both still processing all of it. In fact, I’m not entirely sure what to write. Man o man, it was just amazing.

We got into Vegas on Wednesday night and got checked in and stuff and were even able to get a semi good night’s sleep. We were both awake at 5am because we were still on east coast time and that was great for us because we got to have a leisurely breakfast and wander around a bit and get our bearings.

I’m going to try to get to the real highlights of TAM 6. This is going to be hard, there were so many, but ok, here it goes, in no particular order: Continue Reading »

• education , science , skepticism , travel
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jewel January 7th, 2008

I’ve been meaning to blog about Donors Choose for a while now. A few months ago, through a Donors Choose challenge put together by one of my favorite blogs, Pharyngula, I decided to donate a few bucks to a couple of the proposals on his list. Well, since then I have tried to donate some every month to a Donors Choose proposal. I don’t have kids, and to tell you the truth I’ve never wanted any. Even still, it made me feel good to help kids get stuff to help them learn science more effectively and who knows, maybe some of those kids will become scientists.

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• donations , education
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