The Rules: A dating handbook
The Pale Blue Dot
How meditation changes your brain
Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria
Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'
Saving Antarctica
An Antarctic mystery
The first mobile phone call
The rebel nuns who left their convent behind
The last smallpox outbreak
Freeing American prisoners from Iran
Womenomics in Japan
The petrol that was poisoning children
Strikers in saris
Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment
The Major and the VW Beetle
The 'Spanish' flu
The Ebola virus
The polio vaccine
The SARS epidemic
Marburg virus
The 'I Love You' computer virus
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
Red Hollywood
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
The Chinese cure for malaria
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
The Cheonan sinking
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
13 February 2020
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The groundbreaking novel about female sexuality, called Fear of Flying, was first published in 1973. Dina Newman has been speaking to its author, Erica Jong.
Photo courtesy of Erica Jong
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