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2F71A3H A Mallard duck on the River Avon, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK

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Matt Parker's comic look at trigonometry is a bit heavy on the maths

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker's Love Triangle is fast-paced, with nuggets about everything from impossible soccer balls to duck wakes. But it doesn't leave our reviewer understanding trigonometry any better

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Young woman with a backpack hiking in the mountains. Exploring in the nature, enjoying the view.

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Save the planet, release your inner wild, urges a passionate new book

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

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FEE8WC Seoul, South Korea-November 15, 2015; Men playing in the outside ?Baduk? that is the Korean name for Go. November 15, 2015 Seoul

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New book explores how games shape the world – for better or for worse

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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

In a social world, being alone (by choice or not) is complex. Solitude: The science and power of being alone by Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen and Thuy-vy T. Nguyen brings us up to date

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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