Check out our inaugural episode of Cocktail Party Science, in which host Chuck Cage, senior editor Nicole Dyer and Web editor Megan Miller talk to Eric Hagerman, author of “Your Sewer on Drugs.” You’ll get a behind-the-scenes account of what it was really like to dive into the manholes of San Diego in the name of science. Plus: Get the skinny on last week’s satellite shoot down, the digital TV conversion, and how to make homemade slime.

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