Christmas Specials
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Complex saviours
The new tech worldview
Silicon Valley may be coming down to earth. Not so tech’s big thinkers
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Taking the Mickey
A treasure trove of Hollywood intellectual property is heading for the public domain
Mickey Mouse is about to be set free
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The myth of the holy cow
India’s movement to protect cows is rooted in politics, not religion
How the Hindu right co-opted the cow
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A tale of oil and rubber
What Brazil’s 19th-century rubber crash could teach today’s oil drillers
Two Brazilian booms bookmark the history of the car
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The weight of the world
The economics of thinness
It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin
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Use your loaf
How food affects the mind, as well as the body
It turns out you are what you eat after all
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All uncreated men are equal
Should we care about people who need never exist?
How do you value a life not yet lived?
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The wibbly-wobbly circle of life
Deadly, dirty, indispensable: the nitrogen industry has changed the world
It lays waste to ecosystems, allows wars to kill millions and has kept billions from starvation
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Secrets of the shallows
A megadrought has revealed a possible mafia murder mystery
Las Vegas has a long history with the mob
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The three knife trilogy
Emigrants from a small corner of China are making an outsize mark abroad
Chinese migrants from Wenzhou are strikingly different from their compatriots