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Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was

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Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was

An exhibition at London's Science Museum and a philosophising book explore our desire for food, while another new book exposes the food industry's dark secrets

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<i>Is Shame Necessary?</i> It can be in the right hands

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Is Shame Necessary? It can be in the right hands

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<i>Age of Sustainable Development</i>: Good lives for all?

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Age of Sustainable Development: Good lives for all?

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<i>This Idea Must Die</i>: Which science ideas should retire?

This Idea Must Die: Which science ideas should retire?

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Where we're headed in the search for our minds

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Where we're headed in the search for our minds

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<i>Birth of a Theorem</i>: Mathematics, Boltzmann and brio

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Birth of a Theorem: Mathematics, Boltzmann and brio

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<i>A New History of Life</i> shows we're not extinction-proof

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A New History of Life shows we're not extinction-proof

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Art, elections and mad cow disease

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Art, elections and mad cow disease

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Work in an age of robots

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Work in an age of robots

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Risking everything to save songbirds

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Risking everything to save songbirds

Millions of migrant birds are illegally caught for food each year. A new documentary, Emptying The Skies, portrays the brave people fighting to enforce the law

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Our 2014 Pitch Us a Movie Competition winner

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An encyclopaedic guide to the dark genome

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Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design

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What makes us altruistic – and what's it good for?

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