SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY FUTURE
www.bbcfocusmagazine.com Issue 209 November 2009 £3.60
THE ULTIMATE
HOW TO SEE A PAIN-FREE SURVIVE THE END
GADGET
BLACK HOLE p70 GM COWS p21 OF THE WORLD p76
GUIDE
WHAT TO BUY
THIS CHRISTMAS
20 pages p83
Stephen Fry
FIND OUT
If insects get sunburnt
“Does the badger care whether
Why women don’t go bald
the wallaby survives? Unlikely.” p39
Why men have nipples
If fi sh sleep
Cadaver Farm
Meet the lady who studies
maggot-fi lled bodies for a living p48
iTHINK
An artifi cial brain that’s conscious and can
even get angry is nearly here.
Should we let robots out-think us?
p26
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