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Culture
E. O. Wilson: Why I wrote a novel – about ants
Books & Arts
Review: Boyle: Between God and science
Books & Arts
Review: Pythagoras’ Revenge by Arturo Sangalli
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Earth
Review: An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
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Review: Beyond Uncertainty by David C Cassidy
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Life
Review: Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
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Review: Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
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Review: The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin
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Review: Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
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Review: The Undercover Scientist, by Peter J. Bentley
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