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24 October 2018

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What if we used movement to manipulate the mind? That’s the premise behind choreographer Matthias Sperling’s deliriously strange performance-lecture Now That We Know, 1-2 November at the Lilian Bayliss Studio in London.

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Seventy-two people died when fire consumed the Grenfell Tower flats in west London last year. On 30 October, The Fires That Foretold Grenfell on BBC2 tells the haunting story of five major blazes that forewarned of the tragedy.

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Marion Nestle reveals an Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat (Basic), while Donald Varene explores The Science of Cookery and the…

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