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22 Oct 2014:
We have exalted longevity over what makes life worth living. GP Gavin Francis salutes a moving exploration of illness and death
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17 Oct 2014: GrrlScientist: After my bookgasm (book-buying binge) at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ve got a mountain of wonderful books to share with you -- a project that will take place over the next few weeks.
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16 Oct 2014:
GrrlScientist: The newest instalment in the Nick and Tesla “science mysteries” series, where young people learn to use their scientific and electronics knowledge to solve mysteries around them.
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14 Oct 2014: The 19th century ornithologist had a surprisingly progressive view of Australian animals, championing the fast-disappearing thylacine and broad-faced potoroo, writes Fred Ford – even if he also knew how to cook a wombat
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12 Oct 2014: A thought-provoking exploration of Cornish lives and landscapes has an affinity with the work of Simon Armitage, writes Kate Kellaway
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11 Oct 2014:
The books interview: The surgeon-author talks to Sukhdev Sandhu about the limits of medicine, our view of death, and battles over taste with the editor of the New Yorker
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3 Oct 2014: Although I recently returned from visiting London, books still arrived in the mail during my absence for me to share with you. Here’s some of the treasure-trove ...
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3 Oct 2014: Martin Robbins: A poorly researched diatribe on the ‘youth of today’, Susan Greenfield’s exploration of Mind Change reads like a Littlejohn column wrapped in the trappings of science
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3 Oct 2014:
From death rays to digital music – this is a pleasing survey of innovations that have made the modern world. By Peter Forbes
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2 Oct 2014: The Greeks cast their science from first principles, without troubling to examine the natural world. Aristotle changed everything, argues this elegantly written book. By Henry Gee
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2 Oct 2014: 'Why are there only three carrots when I sowed enough seed to relieve the siege of Leningrad?' An allotment addict on the pleasures of putting spade to soil. By Frances Stonor Saunders
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28 Sep 2014:
If Earth is so unremarkable, why haven’t we found signs of alien life? By Robin McKie
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26 Sep 2014:
Blood-sucking flies, exhumed stomachs and DNA profiling – Val McDermid looks at how the tools of forensic science have, over the centuries, solved many a gruesome murder
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23 Sep 2014: From breath-taking wildlife pictures to what makes homo sapiens tick and the secrets of Colin the Cloud
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22 Sep 2014:
Naomi Klein pins the blame for climate crisis squarely on capitalism. John Gray fears the problem is much bigger
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