Washington Post Op-ed: Groundhog Day is silly. But as a scientist, I love it anyway.

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Every Feb. 2, as Punxsutawney Phil shakes the dust off his coat, emerges from his burrow, glances at his shadow (or not) and allegedly prognosticates winter's end, I gather a group of professors, graduate students and other assorted science geeks at my UCLA lab. We nibble, drink, schmooze and revel

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Callospermophilus lateralis

Spermophilus