麻豆传媒

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Explore the latest science non-fiction books and sci-fi novels, plus science and technology-related theatre, exhibitions, games, movies and TV programmes with reviews and recommendations from 麻豆传媒.

Athena Promachos sculpture

Technology

How games like Assassin’s Creed give us a feel for history

One of the great extras of playing games like Assassin's Creed is their sense of historical time and place, even letting us play at translating ancient hieroglyphics

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Humans

Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

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Space

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

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Gabbie Hanna

Technology

The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube

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medieval manuscript

Life

Don’t miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun

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gilded representation of brain

Mind

The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain

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Mind

Don’t miss: Kubrick’s genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion

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solar eclipse

Physics

Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again?

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Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn鈥檛 see his latest novel as being science fiction

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Environment

A planet of nearly 8 billion people needs a new kind of green thinking

In two new books, an unsung eco hero and a 鈥渘atural capitalist鈥� plot unique paths to environmental harmony on a crowded planet

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Life

We鈥檙e being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions

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Earth

Don鈥檛 miss: Earth from space, asteroid workouts and nature鈥檚 giants

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Environment

David Attenborough’s Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty

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Life

A chimp’s hug shows it’s time to accept that animals have feelings too

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