Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetry This article is more than 10 years oldPatrick Kavanagh's Advent: unifying the miraculous with the banalThis article is more than 10 years oldThe Irish author's awkwardly beautiful Christmas poem plays with shape and rhyme in unexpected waysAt first you could almost imagine that the speaker in this week's poem, Advent by Patrick Kavanagh, is Adam, addressing Eve some while after the Fall. Calling the addressee "

FictionReviewAll bets are off: human meat isn’t murder, it’s on the menu in this blood-spattered narrative“There are words that cover up the world,” thinks the protagonist of this prizewinning Argentinian dystopia. In our world of industrialised farming, we talk about “gestation crates” and “insemination phases”. In the world of the novel, where cannibalism has become normalised after animals were wiped out by a global epidemic, euphemism is even more essential. Marcos runs a factory that raises and slaughters humans, and is intimately involved with every stage of production.

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A huge white cow has sold for the highest price ever, making it the most expensive cow in the world. One-third of the ownership of the cow, a 4-and-a-half-year-old Nelore breed named Viatina-19 FIV Mara Imóveis, was sold for 6.99 million reals—the equivalent of $1.44 million—at an auction held in Arandú, Brazil. The cow was sold by Agropecuária Casa Branca to Nelore HRO for this record-breaking price, placing its total value at a staggering $4.

Cancer research This article is more than 2 years oldObituaryAndrew Thomson obituaryThis article is more than 2 years oldChemist who made a breakthrough in developing the anti-cancer drug cisplatin and brought about advances in spectroscopyAndrew Thomson, who has died aged 80 after a stroke, played a crucial role early in his career in the discovery of a widely used anti-cancer drug, cisplatin, before going on to do pioneering work in the field of spectroscopy, enhancing our understanding of the functioning of substances vital to life, such as haemoglobin.