Be grateful, dear reader, that someone else does the hard, dangerous and downright grody work involved in truly audacious science
Posted 04.08.2010 at 1:18 pm
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We've been highlighting the down and dirty worst jobs in science for several years now, but 2010's selections, presented here, are especially grody (dung curator? oceanic snot diver?). It's lucky, then, that while reporting on the hardest, grossest and most dangerous, we also uncovered what might possibly be the best job in science.
For the ten worst, and one best job in science, see the gallery above.
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