@mobbs here. Time for my pre-christmas post, and what better than to plug our own work? As hard working curators we also squeeze in time to write awesome posts which you can read about below:

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@trumpman

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3 Amazing Spiders That Pretend To Be Something Else!

In Trumperino's post, we learn about one of the most fascinating organisms ever: Spiders. In particular:

• Ariamnes flagellum
• Myrmarachne plataleoides
• The genus Paraplectan

These spiders do not... look like spiders at all, it's actually pretty crazy the lengths they've gone to mimic others. Jealous.

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@ruth-girl

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Diamond Rain In The Forest - A Short Story Of Fantasy

Here we have a short story complemented with a soundtrack for your reading involving a girl, a deer and a huntsman. It's quite beautifully written and even has some explanatory science at the bottom; Diamond rain is not as fantastical as you might think!

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@mobbs

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NEW DISCOVERIES: SEVEN beautiful spiders

More spiders for you. I told you they're awesome. I've written extensively about spiders, including jumping spiders specifically. These peacock spiders are in the jumping spider family, but the seven I write about are completely new to science, found in southern Australia, and they're so cute!

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@ertwro

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More Than Words

We go deep into Bioengineering here, looking at how it's already in fact a reality, albeit in its infancy and how it may affect our food, our medicine, and how programming language is so much more than just computer jargon; it goes right down to the DNA.

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So there you go, check us out but more importantly, check out the steemSTEM tag for more golden science material, and more importantly still, have a great Christmas from me! (@mobbs).