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The Best of November

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By clock on November 30, 2008.

For those of you too busy to read this blog daily and who did not have time to check out each of 233 posts I published on this blog in November, here is a sampling of some of the posts you may like to check out now:

Spring Forward, Fall Back - should you watch out tomorrow morning?
Semlin Judenlager
I have voted. Have you?
Roosevelts on Toilets
Transition and the new Cabinet
Post-election thoughts
Republicans? Who's that?
The Science Blog Meme
Will there be new communication channels in the Obama administration?
The map is in the bag, but the sequence may yet reveal if kangaroos have jumping genes
Science by press release - you are doing it wrong
Advice for potential graduate students
Obama's Transition
Mining the Web for the patterns in the Real World
Science and Science Fiction
What is wrong with the picture?
Why does Impact Factor persist most strongly in smaller countries
The Open Laboratory 2008 - you have 34 hours left!
Twilight

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