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"By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man...
"Well! I’ve finally come across a contemporary writer who may fit comfortably in company with Richard Powers, Umberto Eco and Salman Rushdie. And it somehow seems appropriate that this writer hails from Tasmania, a land whose bloody history of expl..."
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"Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the...
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