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• Children’s author Rob Towner self-published a Christmas book and made it available for free download on Amazon. His first AMA helped the book shoot up to the No. 1 children’s Christmas title—so he did another AMA. (r/IAmA)
• A scientist who proposed to his fiancée with PCR gel shares his method. The hardest part: “actually coming up with a good enough excuse to get her to image a gel in my lab.” (r/biology via r/bestof)
• Ken Levine, creative director of BioShock and BioShock Infinite, answers your questions. (r/IAmA)
• What’s the most trouble I can get in for $5 without hurting anyone? (r/askreddit)
• Would r/atheism be a top 20 subreddit if it weren’t a default? (r/theoryofreddit)
• Does the way you sleep (on your side, on your back, on your chest) affect how your bones grow? (r/askscience)

Pic of the day: Yup, it snowed. (r/pics)

Hottest subreddit: r/DeadMatter (1 day)