THE GENOME GADGET
The Music of Science: Oliver Morton reckons Alan Turing would love this: a gadget the size of a matchbox which can read a genome sequence... read more »
DON'T MENTION SKIN COLOUR
It's been the most exciting English Premiership season for years, but the game has been marred by two racial incidents. Patrick Barclay shows how football can move on... read more »
SOME LIKE IT VERY HOT
For years it was thought that life couldn’t exist below a certain depth or above a certain heat. Now those limits turn out not to be limits after all. Bryan Appleyard looks into extremophiles... read more »
94 ELEMENTS COME TO LIFE
This Season: Samantha Weinberg's pick of the science events is "94 Elements", a series of short films which takes us out of the chemistry lab and into the real world... read more »
THE VOICE IS THE BEST
The Big Question: Edward Carr on the one musical instrument we all share... read more »
NON COGITO, ERGO SUM
Sometimes thinking is a bad idea. Ian Leslie draws on Dylan, Djokovic and academic research to put the case for unthinking...
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A VELVET FIST
If you want to start a peaceful revolution, the person to call is a Serb with a passion for Tolkien. Srdja Popovic is advising rebels in 40 countries. Emma Williams watches him at work and at home... read more »
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quote It's often seemed to me that Shakespeare might well have been a simply brilliant editor as well as a beyond-extraordinary writer