Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics
2 March 2020
Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky
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All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work
14 January 2019
How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?
Darkfield's Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead
28 November 2018
In the sylvan surroundings of Dartington Hall, the pioneers of immersive theatre are exploring the many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, one air crash at a time
Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists
17 August 2018
What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller
16 August 2018
This is the way the world ends in Jeffrey Lewis's satirical portrayal of future war – not with a bang but a tweet
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
A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic
24 January 2018
In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story
You’ve just crossed over… The Twilight Zone takes to the stage
19 December 2017
Turning US sci-fi television into 21st century theatre is oddly successful as a portent of doom in a world increasingly incapable of separating fact from fiction
How refugee scientists can change the world
7 December 2017
What becomes of the scientists among those fleeing war and conflict in Africa and the Middle East, asks a documentary, Science in Exile
Waterworlds: How should we protect our most precious resource?
6 December 2017
As new politics of protecting natural resources emerges, what does that mean for water? And who writes the rules? Three new books explore
