The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out our most popular articles of the week on a variety of subjects, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

Dean Karmen Shows Steven Colbert How To Filter Water

St Patricks Day Goes Green with Green Beer: Top 10 Eco Beers

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Nicole:

East Meets West at Dubai Art Fair, But Shadow of Migrant Labor Remains

TakePart’s “I Am Voting For” Campaign Wants You To Vote the Issues

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Giulia:

Simon Cowell Gives Big

Scarlett Johansson Dates For Charity

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Gina:

Top 10 Easter Films

Top 10 Films That Have Helped to Frame the War in Iraq

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Kerry:

Aqua Colbert Massage In a Bottle

Dakota the Mummified Duckbilled Dinosaur Gets Its Rocks Off

A team of paleontologists in North Dakota’s state museum is carefully chiseling away at a 65 million-year-old chunk of rock in order to extricate the nearly complete duckbilled dinosaur encased in it, according to the AP. “Dakota,” as the mummified Edmontosaurus has been named, is not your garden-variety, fragmented fossil; it’s a 30-foot-long specimen complete with skin and very nearly whole.

As one of the paleontologists, Phillip Manning, told the AP:

“This is the closest many people will ever get to seeing what large parts of a dinosaur actually looked like, in the flesh”This is not the usual disjointed sentence or fragment of a word that the fossil records offer up as evidence of past life. This is a full chapter.”

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