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Celebrate Valentine's Day with creative scientific cartoons to send to your geeky sweetie. Discover Ironic Sans for unique designs.

Written byPhil Plait
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Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and I'll have something appropriate to post for you then, but in the meantime, I'll remind you that Ironic Sans has great scientific cartoons you can send your geeky sweetie. He even inspired me to create my own. You can follow him on Twitter, too.

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