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If you want fiction readings, you're going to have to go all the way to Bellevue tonight. Here, it's all science all the time.

Science on Tap at Third Place Ravenna is an occasion to drink booze and talk about science. today's question is: "How does stress increase your risk of addiction?" The answer, from Charles Chavkin, will involve neuroscience.

Deborah Blum reads at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. The Poisoner's Handbook is subtitled Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. It's like CSI, only it's well-written and interesting.

And Town Hall hosts Michael Hanlon tonight. Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!) A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries looks at questions like: "How does time really work, and do we even understand it? Am I the same person I was a minute ago, even as all the atoms in my body are being replaced? What is the other 96% of the earth made of? Does the paranormal exist?" Answers will be forthcoming.

Any one of these would make a fine reading of the night. Go learn science, people!

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.