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Chinese typewriter

Technology

China’s struggle to overcome technological imperialism

The Chinese Typewriter tells the fascinating story of technological colonialism, racism and the complexities of a language unlike any other

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meditation

Health

Lost in meditation: Two books argue over mindfulness

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earthquake

Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Culture

Health

Graphic design can save your life – here’s how

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Space

The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

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Brooks

Environment

Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

Culture

Technology

The Darkening Web: Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon

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Health

Hellblade, a game route into the world of psychosis

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Humans

A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

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Two actors on a stage

Humans

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

In turning its hero into a living social network through which to examine the nature of violence in the 21st century, a new play misses some important tricks

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Life

‘Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

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Space

America’s total eclipse: The best guides to how to prepare

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Environment

The porker paradox: A very human dilemma

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Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

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