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Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from May: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask. By Jacob Mikanowski. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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  As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed …

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  From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?

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  ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD

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  From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-yea…

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  From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office

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  ‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationa…

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  ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative…

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  Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where gen…

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  Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?

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  Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Br…

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  My family and other Nazis

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  Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten geni…

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  Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

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  From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the wo…