Humans
Can video games really create new knowledge?
In Knowledge Games Karen Schrier argues that games can tackle some of the thorniest problems, from global warming to lack of food and clean water
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Humans
What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall
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Humans
Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present
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Environment
Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God
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Humans
Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance
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Humans
Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?
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Humans
The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould
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Humans
Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?
Culture
Life
Savagely malled: Why ‘smart’ cities aren’t so smart
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Humans
Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?
Capturing differences between people can easily fuel prejudice: two books explore how pseudoscience helped make ideas about race and how real science unmakes them
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Humans
Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone
Culture
Physics
Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics 鈥� but only so far
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Environment
The Persuaders: How we let the PR industry control our minds
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Humans
Why Only Us: The language paradox
Culture