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...world is and how little things can make big differences. To understand how figs and fig wasps interact, it’s important to realise that a fig isn’t a fruit in the way that apples, cherries or plums are. Instead it starts out as a complicated and unique flower head. Think of a dandelion flower. Each of those lovely yellow petals is in fact a tiny individual flower with...

...world. In the early 1980s, I contributed to these statistics when working on one of the deep-water platforms. Before each trip I remember an adrenalin-fed focus that took in every word of the flight safety briefing. That’s still how it’s done, even for seasoned oil-workers. Over those last four decades, accidents have claimed the lives of around 130 oil staff and...