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Oli Scarff /AFP via Getty Images From Harry Potter’s first kiss to Cliff Richard’s famous Christmas hit, mistletoe is everywhere in popular culture. But this Christmas tradition of standing under a sprig of the evergreen plant to exchange kisses existed long before it ever appeared in films and songs. With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging worldwide, 2020 will not be a vintage year for mistletoe smooches. The virus can be spread through saliva, and even if that risk doesn’t put people off, social distancing means that snog-filled parties are off the menu for now. The mistletoe kiss wil...

By clock on June 7, 2010. To get disclaimers out of the way, first, Vanessa Woods (on Twitter) is a friend. I first met her online, reading her blog Bonobo Handshake where she documented her day-to-day life and work with bonobos in the Congo. We met in person shortly after her arrival to North Carolina, at a blogger meetup in Durham, after which she came to three editions of ScienceOnline conference. I interviewed Vanessa after the 2008 event and blogged (scroll down to the second half of the post) about her 2009 session 'Blogging adventure: how to post from strange locatio...