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Editor's note
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It’s the weekend and – if you live close to or are visiting London – you might like to take in the new Monet exhibition at the National Gallery. But then again, at £20 a ticket, you might not. But Stephanie Dieckvoss says the uproar is misguided. Meanwhile, art has a way of playing funny tricks on the viewer, as this piece about the Mona Lisa’s moustache explores.
By now the cookery enthusiasts among us will know who has won the title of Masterchef 2018 (no spoilers here). But in South-East Asia there are plenty of people still scratching their heads over the judges’ seeming ignorance about their cuisine. Here is everything you need to know about chicken rendang and nasi lemak, dishes now apparently destined to appear on a few more menus.
And whether you are sitting down to a curry or a Sunday roast this weekend, you should read our guide about how best to approach the dreaded subject of talking politics with your family. In these turbulent times it’s always good to avoid conflict on the domestic front.
This week we also marked the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, learned how a “zombie slug” could be the gardener’s best friend and worried about our beer consumption. Happy reading.
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Jonathan Este
Associate Editor
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Top stories
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Two works by Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) and L.H.O.O.Q. Rasée (1965).
Bence Nanay, University of Cambridge
Some classic tales about the way artists can mess with your mind.
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Gaik Cheng Khoo, University of Nottingham
It was more than a storm in a teacup when the judges of UK Masterchef displayed their ignorance about South-East Asian food.
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Billy Clark, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Graham Hall, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Sarah Duffy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
We're often less careful when talking to people we know well than we are when we talk to strangers. That can be a mistake.
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Politics + Society
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Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham; Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University; Balsam Mustafa, University of Birmingham; Beverley Milton-Edwards, Queen's University Belfast; Cengiz Gunes, The Open University; Edward Wastnidge, The Open University; Moritz Pieper, University of Salford; Natasha Ezrow, University of Essex; Simon J Smith, Staffordshire University
The Syrian conflict is a war of many sides. Here's a rundown of the key players.
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James Sweeney, Lancaster University
The legal standards for military intervention are complicated and highly specific. It's not clear an attack on Syria would meet them.
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Michael Spagat, Royal Holloway
If journal editors fail to retract or properly flag data revealed as inaccurate, they leave open the possibility that it'll be cited for years to come.
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Balsam Mustafa, University of Birmingham
After the US invasion brought their dictator down, Iraqis' everyday lives were marked by chaos and violence.
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Jakob Ohme, University of Southern Denmark
If you want us to delete social media, you need to fill the political news vacuum it creates.
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Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin; Connal Parr, Northumbria University, Newcastle; John Morrison, University of East London; Margaret O'Callaghan, Queen's University Belfast
In a series of short audio clips, four academics talk about the key figures involved in making the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998 possible.
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Environment + Energy
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Peter T. Spooner, UCL
How we showed the Atlantic circulation system is its weakest for 1,600 years.
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Philip Donkersley, Lancaster University
Honeybees are responsible for only a third of crop pollination in Britain.
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Tom Baxter, University of Aberdeen
It's a policy to help the environment, so where's the evidence to support it?
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Robbie Rae, Liverpool John Moores University; Sally Williamson, Liverpool John Moores University
The nematode that can turn slugs into zombies.
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Health + Medicine
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Angela Wood, University of Cambridge; Ellie Paige, Australian National University
Drinking one unit of alcohol reduces your life expectancy by 15 to 30 minutes.
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Stephen Hughes, Anglia Ruskin University
Medicine is an innovative, rapidly progressing field. Unfortunately, medical language is often stuck in the past.
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Michael Cole, Anglia Ruskin University; Agatha Grela, Anglia Ruskin University; Lata Gautam, Anglia Ruskin University
More young people are using Xanax – but overdose, addiction and side effects present serious risks.
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Science + Technology
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Huw Groucutt, University of Oxford
How we found the oldest human fossil ever discovered outside Africa and the Levant.
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Lyndsay Christie, University of Bath
Salmon prices are soaring because of sea lice infestations – but new medicine and technology could help.
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Arts + Culture
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Stephanie Dieckvoss, Kingston University
Charging over £20 for admission is one thing – but what about reaching beyond the usual audience?
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Annebella Pollen, University of Brighton
A century ago, utopian thinkers and practitioners predicted the coming of a nude world of liberated bodies.
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Education
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Catherine Heinemeyer, York St John University
Storytelling has endangered status in UK schools, partly due to a huge emphasis on 'active learning'.
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Business + Economy
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Susanna Whawell, University of Manchester
More women are making it to the boardroom but are often promoted to an untenable and precarious leadership position.
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