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10:48 am Sat
Feb 21, 2009
Leo sez, "An international contest: Scientists dance in order to interpret a doctoral thesis by prancing about. One the winners was : 'Cerebral activation patterns induced by inflection of regular and irregular verbs with positron emission tomography. A comparison between single subject and group analysis'"
The 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest
(Thanks, Leo!)
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