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Salamander Hours is holding its very first Holiday giveaway, courtesy of Periodically Inspired™!

(Contest ends Dec. 2nd, 2012, so enter while you can)

Yep, you heard right, Salamander Hours, in partnership with Periodically Inspired™, is giving away free stuff, just in time for the Holidays!

I heard about Periodically Inspired™ for the first time back in September at the 2012 Maker Faire in Queens, NY. They make clothing and other swag inspired by the Periodic table of Elements – So nerdy and awesome, right?!

Anyway, Courtney Church, the Etsy shop’s founder, was nice enough to let me photograph her and her chemistry swag for an article written by Scienceline.org’s own Rachel Feltman. And I liked her stuff so much that I ended up buying one of her cheeky bumper stickers.

My Periodically Inspired “Wise Ass” Bumper Sticker

To be honest, I haven’t stuck it on anything yet, because I am having too much trouble deciding on whether it should go on my laptop or my graphic tablet – Woe is me, I know.

So for the Holiday Season, Periodically Inspired™ and Salamander Hours teamed up to bring you free nerdy goodies! We will be raffling off two prizes:

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This holiday season, in addition to giving the usual Christmas gifts to loved ones, I will be participating in two gift exchanges: one with a small group of close friends and one with all the cousins on my mother’s side of the family. I am looking forward to both but, as usual, I am finding it challenging to think of a gift that will suit all of the people in attendance at each event.

Two studies, one published in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy and a second in the Journal of American Academy of Business suggest, however, that I should not be worried about the type of gift I wish to give so much as I should be worried about my relationship to the recipient.

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