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Hollywood screen star who paved the way for Wi-Fi

The remarkable tale of actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr helps signal the complex nature of innovation

Inches to metres: how the metric system was born

The story behind the world’s most famous drawing

Christmas gifts for the rationally curious

Popular science books to put on your Christmas list

Tim Minchin uses comedy to open a door to rationalism

How to grow old with whimsy and wit

Our deluded minds are just trying to make us happy

Mathematics as the raw material for art

The riddle of free will goes unsolved

Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga's Who's In Charge? Free will and the science of the brain is fascinating, but doesn't deliver on its promise

Can we annihilate war with science?

So you want to design your baby?

A tour through our self-delusions

Quantum mechanics difficult to grasp? Too bad