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With the wealth of data being created nowadays, new forms of artistic collaboration with scientists are emerging.
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The widespread discussion as to whether the Hurricane Harvey disaster was caused by climate change or not is a dangerous distraction from the real issues.
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Promising scientific consensus is a perilous principle on which to found meaningful engagement between experts and the public.
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Everything we know about the way experts’ brains work tells us that Mayweather is likely to win the fight.
Digital games now know you so well they can predict your behaviour.
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The traditional media industry comes with a large environmental cost, but emissions from digital productions are often ignored.
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They survived the pressures of globalisation and now thrive internationally.
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It is only when disaster strikes that a community and its problems are truly rendered visible.
Indian Imperial Police, 1908.
There is something disconcerting about the Western move to denounce the human rights records of post-colonial states.
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A Victorian athlete’s use of ‘performance-enhancing’ coca was met with interested approval rather than anger of the kind directed at Justin Gatlin.
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Shakespeare’s play offered me a chance to think about India’s political and social issues from a literary and epic perspective.
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Areas of the brain are being mapped, much like the towns, cities and countries represented in a typical atlas.
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Sports and the arts are now separated, but it wasn’t always like this.
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Humans behave like atoms when viewed from a distance.
Allied forces wearing gas masks at Ypres, 1917.
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The first fully industrialised war prompted many to draw parallels between human society and the insect world.
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Even if alien life is never discovered, all is not lost.
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Activist art makes clear that the border dynamic is a lot more complex than Trumps’s ‘them/us’ rhetoric.
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Sales of antiquities legally excavated are just as ethically problematic as those likely looted.
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Macron’s portrait and taste in literature are full of political symbols to be sussed.
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Henry David Thoreau might appear to be very ill-adapted for the modern West – but his writing contains some striking lessons for the modern world.