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Look, I know Christmas is a ways off yet, but it's never too early for science. So why not do both? Computational biology postdoc (!) Tariq Abdulla has done just that in a very, very clever and wonderful way: He's taken standard Christmas carols and rewritten the lyrics to promote good ol' fashioned science. He calls them Scientific Songs of Praise. I know, you're skeptical--as you should be. Always! But this is delightful. Abdulla has done a very good job getting not just the lyrics to scan wel...