Roll up yours sleeves, grab a pencil and paper, paint and scissors, or glue and string and get those creative juices flowing. We can’t wait to see your best ideas, pictures, stories, and poems featured in ODYSSEY magazine or on this Web site! Remember to always include your full name, age, and address with your submissions.
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CONTEST:
Virtual Body
Be sure to read the Science Scoop, “Who’s in That Cave?”. Now for your ideas. How else could a four-dimensional computer model of the human body help science? What problems might it make easier to solve?WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your response.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue of ODYSSEY!
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CONTEST:
Can you hear the difference?
After checking out the Music of the Future? Science Scoop, go to www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3136 and listen to both the real and virtual clarinet. Which do you like better? Have a friend or family member listen, but don’t tell them which is which. Can they guess? WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your response.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue!
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CONTEST:
Science Writer’s Sweepstakes
Think that YOU’VE found an amazing piece of science news? Then tell us about it! Search for breaking science news on the Web, in magazines, journals, or newspapers. Then, write your own news story about it, including proper credit for the people who broke the story first.WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send in your original typed article, up to 250 words, by October 31, 2008. Include your name, age and address, and don’t forget to credit your sources!
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue and win a free one-year subscription to ODYSSEY!
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CONTEST:
Preserved in Plastic
Did you go to see a “Body Worlds” exhibit? Even if you didn’t, you can see some of the plastinates in the article “Modern Mummies”. Write and tell us if you find plastination amazing or disturbing. Ask your family members for their opinions. Do you know anyone who has donated his or her body to science? What are their reasons?WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your reponse.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue!
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CONTEST:
Boomerang!
Be sure to read the “Bugs and Bodies” Animal Angles in the September 2008 Stiff: The Engrossing Cadaver issue of ODYSSEY.
Are you up to conducting your own flesh-eating observation? Place a medium-sized piece of meat (such as half of a hotdog) in a location where it will be available to bugs, but not to dogs or small rodents. (Inside a screened porch should work well.) Observe the meat over a week. What kinds of bugs appeared? Which ones came first? Did they nibble at the meat or try to carry it away? How long did the meat last? What signs of decomposition did you observe? WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your observations.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue and win a free one-year subscription to ODYSSEY! (Note: Only one free subscription to a responder in a calendar year.)
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CONTEST:
Whale Brains
Be sure to read the “What do the Whales Think?” Science Scoop here.
Are there whale scientists out there right now discussing their theories on human intelligence? Maybe whales don’t care for science, and create beautiful sound artworks, instead. Or is all this just speculation by us humans, who are desperate for company on the evolutionary ladder?WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your response.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue!
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CONTEST:
Name the Sengi
Be sure to read the “Brand New Giant Elephant Shrew” Science Scoop here.
Rhynochocyon udzungwensis is a mouthful and gray-faced sengi is descriptive but rather boring. We bet you can come up with some brilliant alternatives!WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your name ideas.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue!
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CONTEST:
Boomerang!
Be sure to read the “Oh, the Woes of Popularity” Animal Angles in the July/August 2008 Pirates issue of ODYSSEY.
Catching a ship at sea that is fishing illegally isn’t easy. How do you think the problem of fish piracy can be solved?WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Send us your opinion.
PRIZE: Get published in a future issue and WIN a one-year complimentary subscription to ODYSSEY!
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