• A photograph by Jane Bown captioned in last week’s edition as showing the blind and deaf disability advocate Helen Keller was in fact of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (‘When on my travels please drop the myths. I’m blind, not special’, p38).
• An article about a planning row in Cambridge included a graphic that showed a proposed development by Queens’ College overlapping to a small degree with the Paradise nature reserve. As the text made clear, the proposal for student accommodation will be entirely on college-owned land close to the reserve boundary (Paradise Lost v A Room of One’s Own, 6 August, p23).
• An interview with the poet Pam Ayres mentioned her new book I am Oliver the Otter but, owing to an editing error, omitted to credit its illustrator, Nicola O’Byrne (This much I know, 6 August, Magazine, p5).
• An article (The chemists changing matter atom by atom, 6 August, New Review, p22) featured an analogy in which a pair of nanoscopic tweezers was being used to alter individual atoms and said that “to make a mole [the SI unit of amount of matter]… you would have to take that pair of tweezers and do it 1,023 times”. Due to a typesetting error, the “23” was not in superscript as intended; the number should have been 10 to the power 23 (one followed by 23 zeroes).
• Other recently amended articles include:
The Land of Hope and Fear by Isabel Kershner review – how Israel betrayed its high ideals
Buy now, pay later medical loans on rise as desperate patients go private amid NHS backlogs
UK offshore wind at ‘tipping point’ as funding crisis threatens industry
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