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A new politics of climate change could save the world

Diagnosing global warming leaves us transfixed like rabbits in the headlights: the point now is to act, argue a clutch of new books

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Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

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Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?

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Take a punt: The thrilling science of risk and chance

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G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

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The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

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Savagely malled: Why 'smart' cities aren't so smart

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Surfing Uncertainty: Do our dynamic brains predict the world?

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Being a beast: What happens when people live as other animals?

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The Myth of the Moral Brain: Could a drug make us nicer people?

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Eugenic America: How to exclude almost everyone

Thousands of "unfit" people were forcibly sterilised in the US in the 20th century. Two new books show just how much rigour we need to avoid modern eugenics

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Racism, photography and DNA: can we right past wrongs?

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Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

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The Persuaders: How we let the PR industry control our minds

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The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee

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