The 'No Small Matter giveaway' concludes

Well ladies and gents, it’s Christmas Eve, and it’s high time we conclude the giveaway. So without further ado, the random winners are: Reginald Challis and Beatrice Anton!! I’ll send the books as soon as they confirm and the postal office starts working, hopefully they’ll receive them this year. All in all, I’d like to […]

Mihai Andrei

December 24, 2009 @ 7:18 pm

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All in all, I’d like to thank you all, and for those that signed in for our page you’ll be automatically signed in for any other contest we have and you’ll receive the free ZME Science brochure, with our best posts and features, which I’ll probably have done by the end of January, but I don’t mean to bore you with that.

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