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From children's existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

This is a LONG overdue review for the formerly indie anthology known as The Best Science Writing Online 2012. It was released a few months ago and is a collection of science blog posts selected as the cream of the crop from the online world out of some seven hundred or more submissions.

Let's highlight five of the most extraordinary things that happened in education in 2012:

Yesterday we told you about the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2012. But now we turn our attention to those developments that make us realize just how futuristic things are quickly becoming.

This was an incredible year for science and engineering. We sent a powerful robot scientist to Mars, and we discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle, plus there were world-changing innovations in medicine and materials science.

A review into the workings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has begun in Amsterdam.

The UN secretary general asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body.

If alcoholism is a disease then where is the evidence? While researchers have not yet found a pathogen which proves that addiction is a chronic disease, a psychologist from Harvard now stipulated that the neurological changes in an addict's brain are causes rather than symptoms of addiction.

Review of twelve recent books on economic growth and overconsumption, and the consequences for environmental sustainability.