A History of PicturesThe making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford.

Over fifty years ago Rick Stein first set foot in France

curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations

The brain is our most vital and complex organ

These are the words of the natural world - Dandelion

a surreal lunar year begins

is on the move

and claim to have been waiting for him all along

As other killings follow

her love for her very special dog and

from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present

most of us are doing it wrong

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