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“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” Oliver Sacks has terminal cancer and is going out in a blaze of poetry and beauty.

This video on epigenetics, as explained through Beethoven’s 5th, is a masterpiece of explanatory science communication, from Kerri Smith.

“The endangered dead“: a great feature on the threats facing natural history museums. By Christopher Kemp

The gorgeous typeface that drove men mad and spurred a 100-year mystery. By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

“Why do you want to talk about