Review: Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies by Richard McKenzie
We might assume that popcorn is expensive to buy from cinemas because of monopoly pricing, but such obvious explanations are not always right
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Review: The Power Makers by Maury Klein
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Fortune and Glory by Douglas Palmer, Nicholas James and Giles Sparrow
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Jane’s Space Recognition Guide by Peter Bond
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Review: Apocalypse by Amos Nur with Dawn Burgess
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Review: In Pursuit of the Gene by James Schwartz
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Review: Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
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Health
Review: Head Cases by Michael Paul Mason
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Review: Mirroring People by Marco Iacoboni
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Humans
Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks
Music does some remarkably strange things to people's brains. Frances H. Rauscher looks at a neurologist's valiant attempt to make sense of it all
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Life
The Naming of Names by Anna Povord
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Life
Twilight of the Mammoths by Paul S Martin
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Voices of History 2: Arts, science and exploration, British Library Audio CD
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Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts and Supercars, by Barry Parker
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