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Inside Christmas Science

DEC 24, 2012
The Inside Science staff would like to send warm season’s greetings to all of our readers.
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The Inside Science staff would like to send warm season’s greetings to all of our readers. Today, on Christmas Eve, many of you will be gathering with your loved ones to celebrate Christmas.

Perhaps after singing carols, sharing a meal and gifts, you and yours might gather around that new tablet or computer or Internet-enabled television to read some Inside Science articles -- such as these seasonally relevant stories from our archive:

The science of gift giving

The logistics of delivering Christmas presents

How to pack more gifts (or polyhedrons) in a stocking

Why your next Christmas tree may come from the country of Turkey

How the sounds of Christmas carols relate to everyday speech

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