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Stripping for science - December 10, 2007

What would you do for funding? In an attempt to highlight red-tape and a lack of grants in Italy a group of medical researchers have stripped off.

Following in the grand tradition of risqué calendars, scientists from the Pascale Foundation produced a tasteful set of photos illustrating themselves at work. Albeit at work starkers…

Article on Spiegel.
Image gallery at Spiegel (safe for work).

Posted by Daniel Cressey on December 10, 2007
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Oh, how this reminds me of the much-missed 'Studmuffins of Science' calendar, which featured 12 research hunks (one a month) for two years in the middle 1990s. See http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-95/12-04-95/scistud.htm.

Posted by: Alex Witze | December 11, 2007 05:22 AM

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