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I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (4 January 2014)
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“Antarctica is not just cold, windy and wet. It is the extreme of all those things.” Alok Jha has been live-reporting his voyage to Antarctica, including the last few weeks spent stranded in ice!
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Dolphins are probably not getting “high” off pufferfish.