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Inspiring scientists have been chosen for BBC2’s Seven Wonders of the World,
which began its second series on Wednesday 19 March. The good and the great name
their seven favourite things—from David Attenborough, trees to the creaky
ice of Antarctica. Still to come are neurobiologist Thomas Eisner, Richard
Dawkins, Arthur C. Clarke and Alison Jolly, who chooses volcanic vents and the
homeobox gene, as well as the lemurs on which she is the world expert. Steven
Pinker ends the series on 30 April, adding the bicycle, combinatorial systems
and the camera to the more obvious choices of consciousness and the language
ability of children.