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Don’t miss – time travel anime, overpopulation and skewed food science

Catch Japanese animation Mirai, download a Malthusian discussion and read Marion Nestle's take on how food giants try to muddy the waters on dietary health

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What if we used movement to manipulate the mind? That’s the premise behind choreographer Matthias Sperling’s deliriously strange performance-lecture , 1-2 November at the Lilian Bayliss Studio in London.

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Seventy-two people died when fire consumed the Grenfell Tower flats in west London last year. On 30 October, The Fires That Foretold Grenfell on BBC2 tells the haunting story of five major blazes that forewarned of the tragedy.

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Marion Nestle reveals an : How food companies skew the science of what we eat (Basic), while Donald Varene explores and the Art of Eating Well(Columbia).

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The podcast explores the natural world and how we use it. A two-part look at overpopulation asks why this once burning issue has become something you only seem to hear about from Marvel’s Thanos and other comic book supervillains.

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In cinemas from 2 November, (pictured above) is a poignant Japanese animation fantasy about a boy who discovers a portal to other times, and long-vanished ancestors.

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Topics: Books / Fire / Food and drink / Population