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218: Nothing Compares
Plus, heavy metal, Miyazaki food, a golden age for palaeontology, and good news on poverty in India, hepatitis in Egypt, democracy in the United States, electric vehicle sales in Europe, and tigers in Nepal
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259: The Great Transformation
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258: Dark Oxygen
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