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Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe

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Would snails be better than whales for explaining big data? Maybe

Feedback's proposal that the genome of the blue whale could be used to communicate the scale of large datasets is knocked back by a reader with a radical alternative suggestion

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The world the universe and us podcast

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The world, the universe and us: We're relaunching our weekly podcast

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The best new science fiction books of May 2025

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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?

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Why do so many AI company logos look like buttholes?

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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

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Is there such a thing as a 'vegetative electron microscope'? Doubtful

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Black Mirror returns full of delights and disappointments

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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91av recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

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It's good to have a word describing why going viral is now meaningless

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the 91av Book Club, on the science behind his creation

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The blue whale: the world's most versatile measuring stick?

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health

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Robert Pattinson shines in clunky sci-fi adaptation Mickey 17

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