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Menlo Park suburb looking out to Palo Alto in Silicon Valle

Technology

How a flawed mentality led to Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise

In the memoir Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener examines the collective hyperconfidence that has enabled the tech sector’s meteoric growth

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orchids

Humans

Don’t miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths

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Humans

What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

Culture
Stand up to racism protesters

Humans

How to Argue with a Racist smashes race myths that plague society

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Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson

Health

The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Technology

Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent all-out nuclear war?

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Van Gogh portrait

Mind

Don’t Miss: Escape the deep, explore mind and body and meet van Gogh

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Hugh Laurie

Humans

Avenue 5: Hugh Laurie discovers how space tourism can go badly wrong

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BoJack Horseman

Health

BoJack Horseman shows just how unreliable memories can be

Culture

Star Trek: Picard explores what happens when robots go rogue

Patrick Stewart returns in triumphant new Star Trek spin-off Picard, but the Federation's robots are missing, discontinued, and for a very good reason

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Humans

Black activism has been shaped by tech and data for 100 years

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Humans

Don’t miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

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Technology

Video game Ancestors lets you meddle with the epic story of evolution

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Life

Man raised alongside chimps says it should never happen again

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