Turns out, you just need to catch a boat from Ventura and head about an hour offshore to Channel Islands National Park, where nature has been running its own private laboratory for thousands of years.

Not to point out the obvious, but this was a historic year for television. The industry was, of course, shaken up—and grounded to a halt—because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes. But we also, as ...

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