The "cool" guy at high school ambushed me to talk about Game of Thrones. Now regular folks are turning nerdburger, writes Paul Verhoeven.

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A life-saving vehicle is reimagined as an interactive artwork that responds to heartbeats and breathing with colour and sound.

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An enormous rotting whale carcass has attracted an exceptional collection of normally antisocial saltwater crocodiles.