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Night at the museum

Photographer Richard Barnes explains the allure of museums for artists and why nothing beats the renovation of an old-fashioned diorama

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A gigantic, muddled, jigsaw-puzzle view of science

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Explosive vomit and skin eruptions: arsenic's heyday

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The mystery of the silent aliens

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The Hipparcos chronicles: Star-mapping survivor

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Requiem for a green, wooded land despoiled by mining

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Jon Adams: The robots' book club

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The injustice of Henrietta's immortality

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Jeremy Rifkin: The third industrial revolution

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What's wrong with the 21st century

In The Age of Absurdity, Michael Foley gambols through science, religion, philosophy and literature in search of solutions to contemporary irritations

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Why monogamists need big brains and other stories

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Are you depressed or are you sad?

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A caring god would not have designed us like this

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How Manhattan's poisoners met their match

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