Jesus, many would be forgiven for thinking, was a man with long hair and a beard who wore long robes with baggy sleeves. Or so centuries of Christian art, as well as contemporary film, might imply. But this image of Jesus’s fashion sense is far from the truth. His actual clothing, according to Joan Taylor, was far shabbier.

The ancestors of four-legged land animals probably crawled out of the ocean some 375m years ago. But by studying fish that have some kind of ability to “walk” along the seabed, scientists have found that fish probably evolved the brain circuitry to make walking possible much earlier than this, as Peter Falkingham explains.

Israel’s leaders have long presented their country as an island of democratic stability in a fractured, chaotic Middle East. But while it escaped a full-on uprising during the Arab Spring of 2011, Israel still saw protests large enough to make it clear there’s an unhappy middle class ready to turn on their leaders. Nicolai Due-Gundersen looks back at what happened, and explains why it could happen again.

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