The Economist dismisses Ian McEwan's new novel Solar (published next week), which features a Nobel-winning scientist who travels to the North Pole:
the plot is barely credible and the scientific setting hard to recognise.
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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