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28 October 2020

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the UK is running a virtual tour on 2 November. Quiz experts on wartime codebreaking machines and browse the largest collection of working historic computers in the world.

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by Simon Baron-Cohen asks why the genes for finding and identifying causal patterns, an ability that has driven human progress, overlap so neatly with those we associate with autism.

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, a podcast from Pushkin House in the UK, features Ada Wordsworth speaking to three activists in Russia about the action that is at last challenging their nation’s prevailing culture of climate scepticism.

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