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The Very High Life: Part Two

July 23, 2009

Now that I’ve convinced you you probably shouldn’t take your next vacation in the Atacama Desert (unless you’re into that sort of thing, if you know what I mean), let’s look at the organisms that scientists did find living and loving life in the 3 3/4 Mile-High Club.
Living on the moist, warm ground were moss [...]

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Moss That Swings Both (All?) Ways

May 23, 2009

I’m sometimes greatly amused by the quality of press release science writing that is taking the place of professional science writing these days, since no one will pay for us to do it full time anymore (Science Daily, a major source of  internet science news, is made almost entirely of press releases reprinted verbatim. And [...]

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