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A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The books, TV, games and more that Â鶹´«Ã½ staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

Society

We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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What are we losing by burying ourselves in immersive experiences?

Technology

What are we losing by burying ourselves in immersive experiences?

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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought

Life

The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought

Features

The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

Culture

Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

Culture

Museum of Plant Art

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'Plants are artists' at new Saatchi exhibition celebrating flora

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Kyoto production photo

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends climate change play Kyoto

Culture

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Society

In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

Culture

F6M33H RELEASE DATE: Dec 18, 2007. ORIGINAL MOVIE TITLE: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. STUDIO: World Artists. PLOT: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019. Earth has become a polluted and miserable dystopia, and many people have fled to live 'Off World' on other planets. This dreary vision of the future features replicants: lifelike robots built as slaves for human use. When a replicant escapes his owner, a

Society

Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

Techno-Orientalism is a strand of futurism that condemns and erases Asian cultural power. We need to eradicate it, says Annalee Newitz

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Society

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Systemic: How racism is making us ill

Culture

Society

The Decameron review: 14th-century romp is a veiled satire of today

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Society

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

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Earth

Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum

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