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Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

21 March 2018

From the hunt for a theory of everything to the complex Rosetta mission, there’s treasure to be found in a trawl of some of the recent popular science writing
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Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress

19 March 2018

Steven Pinker argues for optimism and Enlightenment values in his latest book, but there are some serious flaws in his argument

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