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Ask Smithsonian: What Does the World Look Like When You're Color Blind?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Long Can a Person Hold Their Breath?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s the Oldest Animal?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Sleep?
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Ask Smithsonian: Can Chimps Be Genetically Engineered to Be Like Humans?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Happens to Your Body in Space Without a Spacesuit?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Are Lakes Freshwater and Oceans Saltwater?
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Ask Smithsonian: Is Fire a Solid, Liquid or Gas?
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Ask Smithsonian: Does the Five-Second Rule Really Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Are Humans the Only Animals to Use the Stars to Navigate?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Boomerangs Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Are Planets Round?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Does Daylight Savings Affect the Body?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
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Ask Smithsonian: Is It True That Your Hair and Nails Keep Growing After You Die?
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Ask Smithsonian: Do Subliminal Messages Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Did Ancient Greeks and Romans Lie Down to Eat?
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Ask Smithsonian: Can Plants Communicate?
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Ask Smithsonian: Does Stress Turn Your Hair Gray?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Noise-Canceling Headphones Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Is It True We Have Taste Buds in Our Stomachs?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Does My Dog Howl at Sirens?
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Ask Smithsonian: Where Does Space Begin?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do Bugs Die on Their Backs?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Did King Tut Die?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do Songs Get Stuck in My Head?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Are the Weirdest Things Pregnant Women Crave?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Were Prehistoric Animals So Big?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Much Stuff Is in Orbit Around the Earth?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Would Happen if a Solar Flare Hit the Earth?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Dolphins Sleep Without Drowning?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Is the Origin of Applause?
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Ask Smithsonian: Does Lightning Ever Strike Twice?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s a Stone Baby?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Taste Buds Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Does Acupuncture Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: Lightning Round
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Ask Smithsonian: How Does Anesthesia Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s the Difference Between Bacteria and Viruses?
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Ask Smithsonian: Do People Really Drill Holes in Their Heads?
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Ask Smithsonian: Can Cats Really Make Rats Into Zombies?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Don’t People Smile in Old Photographs?
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Ask Smithsonian: Do Cannibals Still Exist?
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Ask Smithsonian: Do Animals Laugh?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?
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Ask Smithsonian: Does Chicken Soup Really Help With a Cold?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s Up With Willpower and Why Don’t I Have It?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Vaccines Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Would Happen if a Large Asteroid Hit the Moon?
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Ask Smithsonian: Five False ‘Facts’ About the Human Body
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Ask Smithsonian: What Keeps Satellites From Falling Out of the Sky?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s the Deepest We’ve Ever Dug Into the Earth?
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Ask Smithsonian: When Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa Topple?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Love Junk Food?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Would Happen if the Yellowstone Volcano Erupted?
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Ask Smithsonian: Have Cats Been Domesticated?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s Up With Saturn’s Rings?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Happens When You Get a Concussion?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Does Rain Have a Distinctive Smell?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Use One Hand More Than the Other?
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Ask Smithsonian: Is Quicksand Real?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Have an Appendix?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do Geese Fly in a V?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do People Get Phobias?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Does Skin Heal?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Did the Plague Kill So Many? Could It Happen Again?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do You Mummify a Body?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s a Freckle?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Spiders Make a Web?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Do Colors Affect Our Moods?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Sneeze?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Is Wind?
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Ask Smithsonian: Can Elephants Jump?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Kiss?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Does My Nose Run When It’s Cold Outside?
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Ask Smithsonian: How Does Night Vision Technology Work?
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Ask Smithsonian: What Makes Skunk Spray Smell So Terrible?
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Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Get Prune Fingers?
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Ask Smithsonian: Can Animals Predict Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters?
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Ask Smithsonian: What’s a Dimple?
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Ask Smithsonian: When Did People Start Keeping Pets?
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Ask Smithsonian: What's the Point of Earwax?
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Introducing Ask Smithsonian
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