Jonathan O’Callaghan via BBC:

‘If life exists elsewhere, it might not be on worlds like Earth. Here are some of the more peculiar places scientists are looking.…’

Rebecca Liu via the Guardian:

‘As I made my way through 19 books over the next six weeks (they start you off at a leisurely pace) I spotted a theme: God is back. In novels set from antiquity to our contemporary world, from romances to comedies to thrillers, characters reached for transcendence and absolution and found themselves mired in all manner of sin, or at least spiritual confusion. Priests were popping up everywhere; people sought comfort in the ancient texts; near-biblical bouts of extreme weather would prove either cleansing or calamitous.…’