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I use my teenagers' slang to bridge the generational gap — sometimes it works, sometimes they beg me to stop.

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Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the oldest known recording of whale song. And it reveals a noisier soundscape of today's oceans.

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