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Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book
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How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
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Earlier this year, in "On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon," Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
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These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
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