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A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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51�� recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The books, TV, games and more that 51�� staff have enjoyed this week

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change

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What are we losing by burying ourselves in immersive experiences?

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What are we losing by burying ourselves in immersive experiences?

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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought

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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Dancers float like jellyfish in the abyss in new Wayne McGregor show

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Museum of Plant Art

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'Plants are artists' at new Saatchi exhibition celebrating flora

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Kyoto production photo

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51�� recommends climate change play Kyoto

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In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

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F6M33H RELEASE DATE: Dec 18, 2007. ORIGINAL MOVIE TITLE: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. STUDIO: World Artists. PLOT: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019. Earth has become a polluted and miserable dystopia, and many people have fled to live 'Off World' on other planets. This dreary vision of the future features replicants: lifelike robots built as slaves for human use. When a replicant escapes his owner, a

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Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

Techno-Orientalism is a strand of futurism that condemns and erases Asian cultural power. We need to eradicate it, says Annalee Newitz

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51�� recommends Systemic: How racism is making us ill

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The Decameron review: 14th-century romp is a veiled satire of today

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51�� recommends: Rutger Bregman's Humankind

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Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum

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