Writing tagged: ‘history’
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
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Newsletter No. 3: ‘Peaking too soon’
Patti Smith • when your taste exceeds your talent • Spinosa • giant snowballs • reconciling longitude • two toddlers in a trench coat • opinions that need to be justified • Earth’s days lengthen • the universe has 20 times more galaxies than we thought • dinosaur tail preserved in amber • John Berger • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton.
