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The Earth Transformed review: The untold history of humans and climate

1 March 2023

Teasing apart the connection between humans and climate is the business of an ambitious book by Peter Frankopan, which is heavy on resources but light on insights

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The Longest Goodbye review: A poignant documentary on space psychology

15 February 2023

Astronaut Cady Coleman playing duets with her Earth-bound son is among the moving and candid moments from The Longest Goodbye, Ido Mizrahy's poignant exploration of the psychology of space travel

Remote review: An architect in a future Kuala Lumpur comes adrift

26 October 2022

An exploration of the deep feeling under the surface of consumerist lives, this film follows Unoaku, who never leaves her flat, as she begins to notice oddities in her slick world, finds Simon Ings

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging

12 October 2022

In this informative book, Patrick House explores interpretations of consciousness through the story of a teenager who laughed during brain surgery when a surgeon artificially stimulated her neural activity

Future Stories review: Has thinking about the future got even harder?

14 September 2022

In unstable times we need to think clearly about the future. There is a lot to learn from David Christian's Future Stories: A user's guide to the future, an ambitious book with a Big History approach

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Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

14 September 2022

Bryn Nelson's extraordinary book asks why we let a vital natural resource, human faeces, get flushed away when we could be using it to heal guts, improve soil and understand our past

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

24 August 2022

Nearly forty years of letters between the two scientists who co-developed the paradigm-changing Gaia hypothesis make for fascinating, humanising reading

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

10 August 2022

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

Laughter Lab at London's Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

8 December 2021

What causes us to laugh? This is the question that Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum, attempts to answer

Unique review: A fascinating look at the science of individuality

9 December 2020

Understanding how individual we all are means grappling with genetics and neuroscience. Unique: The new science of human individuality by David Linden is a great place to start