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Sunday column

You may have gleaned from recent quiz content that I have been watching, again, The Ascent of Man. A pure pleasure. All the heroes are there: Galileo, Newton, Einstein, whoever it was who made the first wheel.

Waiting for me next in the you-may-have-also-enjoyed-this-five-decades-ago section is Connections by James Burke. I’d love to see that again too. …