Notes & queries: Attack of the vampire wasps
Plus: Why playing Monopoly is just like real life; How to donate your organs
The rise of rapeseed oil
Carefully made, high-end British rapeseed oil is all the rage in restaurants, but the cabbagey flavour means there are limits to its versatility. Do you use it?
Et cetera: Steven Poole’s non-fiction choice – reviews
Steven Poole on Barbaric Sport by Marc Perelman, Fly and Be Damned by Peter McManners and Self-Esteem by David Bonham-Carter
A different class: the expansion of Steiner schools
Jeevan Vasagar: The number of Steiner schools is set to expand, thanks to state funding via the coalition's 'free schools' policy. Their alternative approach is appealing, but do they offer a rounded education?
Are modern British children suffering from ‘nature deficit disorder’?
Head to head: Colin Tudge and Aleks Krotoski debate whether the National Trust is right to say losing touch with nature is damaging children
Should we put lithium in the water?
A psychiatrist in Ireland has suggested that putting psychiatric medicine in drinking water could cut the suicide rate
Air pollution in Britain: state-sanctioned mass poisoning
John Vidal: Despite the devastating costs in terms of lives and damage to the economy, UK governments have failed to tackle air pollution
Dolphin therapy is a scam
Dea Birkett: The film Dolphin Tale perpetuates a myth that swimming with dolphins will 'restore' disabled people such as my daughter
Why fiddle with our clocks? This ritual persecution of the sleepless must end
Simon Jenkins: The return from summer time to gloomy GMT owes nothing to nature and all to the Scots. Let us down south enjoy a little light