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Cashing in His Chips
Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
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Henry Gee
Neanderthal Resources
Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation
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Tim Hornyak
This Bird Has Flown
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
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Stuart Jeffries
I, Algorithm
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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Roger Highfield
With Gaia Abandon
The Many Lives of James Lovelock
By Jonathan Watts
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Bryan Appleyard
Planet of the Algorithms
AI Morality
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Adrian Berry
Down the Wormholes
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
By Kip Thorne
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Tim Hornyak
The Ghost in the Tesla
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
By James Muldoon, Mark Graham & Callum Cant
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Tim Hornyak
The World Ends in Seventy-two Minutes
Nuclear War: A Scenario
By Annie Jacobsen
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Carl Miller
Guilt by Algorithm
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
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Tiffany Jenkins
The Smartphone Pandemic
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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John Gribbin
Flames Beneath His Feet
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
By Clive Oppenheimer
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December 2023 Issue
Andrew Crumey
Red Planet & Brown Trout
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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November 2023 Issue
David Edgerton
Human Says No
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
By Robert Skidelsky
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October 2023 Issue
Tim Hornyak
We Know Who You Are
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
By Kashmir Hill
October 2023 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
Man Who Fell to Earth
Elon Musk
By Walter Isaacson
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September 2023 Issue
Blake Smith
Cyborgs Old & New
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
By David Runciman
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Caspar Henderson
Is It a Bird? Is It an eVTOL?
Flying Green: On the Frontiers of New Aviation
By Christopher de Bellaigue
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May 2023 Issue
Patricia Fara
Misogyny under the Microscope
Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science
By Athene Donald
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By Kate Zernike
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April 2023 Issue
Charles Foster
Stop All the Clocks
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
By Richard Fisher
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