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Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

Eldon Garden shopping centre in Newcastle is now a shell of boarded-up shops. Credit: Alamy On my lunchbreak I often find myself wandering through Eldon Garden, a shopping mall in central Newcastle.

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Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

Martin Cohen is a British author. His most recent book is "The Ah-ha Moment: Exploring Philosophical Ideas through Jokes and Puzzles" ...

Paul Davies is a cosmologist and best-selling author who chairs the Post-Detection Taskgroup for SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In 2006 he founded Beyond: Center for Fundamental ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...