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Healing Music, Self-Coups, and Monkey Business

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Orca Hats, Ancient Life, and Edward Said

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The Jet Stream’s History, Cookbooks, and Feminist Fury

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Earwigs, Fungus, and Resistance via Literature

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Quincy Jones, Color Vision, and the F-Word

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Feral Pigs, Vengeance, and a World of Languages

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Bears, Beers, and the Question of Free Will

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Autism Research, Dungan Food, and Forest Histories

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Witches, Earth’s Rings, and Freud’s Patient Zero

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Lightning Gods, Staticky Bugs, and Modern Genetics

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