An A to Z of insects through and outside science
Art and mysticism join entomology in the entertaining Insectopedia, 26 essays and vignettes by Hugh Raffles
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The indirect pursuit of happiness
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Scientific fraud, and how not to do it
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Health
Picking our brains: Can mental illness make you creative?
Features
How you emerge from your brain
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Genius, genes and environment
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String theory untangled
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Bad news for anglers
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Technology
Did Renaissance painters ‘cheat’ with optical aids?
News
World of Warcraft predicts the future
The online game portends what is to come in the real world, from warfare to religion, says sociologist William Sims Bainbridge
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The universe is a quantum computer
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Life-as-web theory can’t be woven from fieldwork yarns
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Power to the people: In praise of batteries
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Learning to use nature’s GPS
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