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...courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s best-seller list (Good e-Reader, 2022). In France in...

...course of twenty four hours, but the key hormone seems to be melatonin. Its concentration rises in the evening, which makes us feel sleepy; in fact one can take synthetic melatonin as a sleeping tablet. In the morning the concentration falls, helped by light. When the eyes receive strong light (not artificial lighting) melatonin production is depressed via links with the...

...free to continue business as usual: for example, it was British Petroleum who coined the idea of individuals calculating their ‘carbon footprints’. For over 300 years, Modern Western civilization has sought to overcome nature (including human nature), so much so that there is no part of the world where the imprint of humankind cannot be found. Hence the recent naming...