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Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

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Randall Munroe on answering the strangest scientific questions

The cartoonist and engineer reveals what percentage of all humans who have ever lived are your ancestors, and what might happen if you pumped pure ammonia into your stomach (don't)

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Don't Miss: Galwad, a multimedia climate-responsibility experience

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Don't Miss: Galwad, a multimedia climate-responsibility experience

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Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR

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Don't Miss: Andor, prequel to the Star Wars spin-off Rogue One

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DDEW4X Diana Schiepp demonstrates the world-wide data communication on an IBM Web Server 400 at the Internet Fair in Berlin on the 29th of May in 1997.

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Escape review: An account of the internet's intimate early days

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Two noir sci-fi novels show crushing despair can make great reading

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Don't Miss: NASA's first steps toward new moon mission via Orion trial

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A4GTM3 Author, ecologist, inventor and scientist Professor James Lovelock in his laboratory at home on the Devon Cornwall border UK.. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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Don't Miss: Final season of dystopian fantasy See comes to Apple TV+

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Look Both Ways. L to R: Lili Reinhart as Natalie and Danny Ramirez as Gabe. Cr. Felicia Graham/Netflix ?? 2022

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Don't Miss: Netflix's new alternative reality drama Look Both Ways

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Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms

When it comes to human physiology, behaviour and social interaction, it is time to abandon a 200-year hunt for normal people, argues Sarah Chaney in her new book

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Don't Miss: Nope, a chilling new sci-fi thriller from Jordan Peele

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Nightmare Fuel review: The psychology that underpins horror films

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The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty

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Don't Miss: The Sandman, Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comics

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