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“Any of us can be susceptible to the subtle social pressure that induces groupthink: It’s perfectly possible that things you have come to accept unquestioningly as true might have been learned...

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and...

“So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in the centre of your room,house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,knowing at last how you got there,and say,...

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The plane comes down behind enemy linesand you don’t speak the language.A girl takes pity on you:she is Mother Theresa walking among the poor,and her eyes have attained night vision.In an...

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Whale falls–the ecosystems thatcoalesce around cetacean carcasses when they sink to the seafloor-can provide nutrients to ocean life for decades. Science journalist SarahDeWeerdt explains ‘They are among the most biodiverse habitats...