Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Hot off the press!

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story on CASTLE’s Principal Blogging Project today:

http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938355.html

http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938358.html

Read it while it’s hot off the press. I think Star Tribune articles are no longer free after a week or two…

Also, not so hot off the press, two of our principal bloggers, Dave Younce and Jason Bednar, were profiled in December in the Chicago-area Daily Herald.

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Perception Box

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Ancient organic chemistry.

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