July 5, 2012

SciAm Blogs Blows Out a Candle, Has Cake, and Invites You to the Party

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The Scientific American Blog Network turns 1 today!

Scicurious wrote a poem for the occasion.

Hard to believe we're so young, innit? We've got a long-established magazine behind us, and so many veteran science bloggers, that it feels longer, at least to me. And I can see this network celebrating many happy returns.

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1. Who are you? Have you got a background in science, do you enjoy it as a layperson, or did you have utterly no interest before stumbling in here?

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