TGIF: Chris Mah On Video

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The Washington Post is sponsoring the onBeing project that
is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little better. What you'll find here is a series of videos that takes you into the musings, passions, histories and quirks of all sorts of people. The essence of who they are, who we are.

One of these videos is Chris Mah, master of all echinoderm, displaying the passion that drive his research and makes interacting with Chris a pleasure. Catch this Chris's guest post at the old DSN.

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That's a beautiful piece. Very exciting.
Talk like that will bring more kids to science.