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Bed Down Location, showing time-lapse video projections of night skies in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan

Technology

How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance

Art shows about surveillance are a dime a dozen in New York, but this exhibition by film-maker Laura Poitras goes for the jugular, finds Brendan Byrne

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Elements

Humans

The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee

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Tumor is the most important book I've ever written

Opinion

language

Life

Why Only Us: The language paradox

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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

NeuroLogic: The enthralling story of the unconscious mind

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Humans

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

Average thinking was a revolution, but we've paid the price for comparing people to impossible standards

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Earth

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

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Life

Staring into the heart of an artificial tree

Regulars

Humans

Verse in the universe: The scientific power of poetry

Comment

Life

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

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