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Today in Science (1012)

By jlynch on October 12, 2007.

But first, your DonorsChoose update.

We seem to have stalled out at 19% of our goal. While I’m sure we can feel happy that we are positively impacting the education of 210 students (and four of our challenges have been met), it has been five days since any reader has donated.

Our masters at Seed have generously volunteered to sweeten the pot a little. In addition to the $15,000 in matching funds that they are putting up, donors can enter to win prizes, namely:

  • 1 iPod nano
  • 21 "Seed Hearts Threadless" tee shirts
  • 21 ScienceBlogs mugs
  • 21 subscriptions to Seed magazine
  • 9 copies of "The Best American Science Writing 2007"

If you donate (or have done so), please forward your e-mail receipt from DonorsChoose to scienceblogs@gmail.com. Drawings will occur on Tuesday the 16th, Tuesday the 23nd, and Tuesday the 30th of this month.

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Events

1964 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits

Births

1725 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist

1792 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist

1865 - Arthur Harden, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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