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Why Only Us: The language paradox

Noam Chomsky’s new book makes some big, and dubious assumptions about how language evolved

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Humans

The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee

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The Imitation Game Tove Kjellmark

Technology

Art tries to pass the Turing test

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Life

Cheats and Deceits: The story of how to stay alive

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Douglas Coupland’s Deep Face: one of the show’s more evocative works

Technology

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966): Backwards to the future

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Life

A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us

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Humans

The End of Average tells us why we should discard a mean idea

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Humans

NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

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Earth

Shock of the Anthropocene: Winners and losers in new world era

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Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

Life

Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

This hollow sculpture – evidently natural, yet glaringly artificial – might have been dragged fresh out of the uncanny valley

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Humans

Verse in the universe: The scientific power of poetry

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Life

The Society of Genes: Time for a subtler picture of evolution

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Technology

The Lumiere festival gets set to light up the London night

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Life

Home: It's where the heart is – and now we know why

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