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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How can Covid-19 affect the human brain?

    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Review
    Preventable — how we can stop the next world-changing pandemic

    Could politicians have responded better to Covid? Public health expert Devi Sridhar is both prescient and scathing

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Review
    The Future of Dinosaurs — detective work and untold discoveries to come

    Prehistoric finds aside, palaeontologist David Hone shows how science is accelerating the pace of intriguing new revelations

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Review
    The Parrot in the Mirror — our similarity to our feathered friends

    Antone Martinho-Truswell makes a surprising case for humans resembling birds more than mammals. Does his argument take flight?

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    This Mortal Coil — matters of life, death and longevity

    Andrew Doig’s compelling history of how we die and the scientific advances that arm us against disease

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Review
    Otherlands — an immersive world tour of prehistoric life on Earth

    Thomas Halliday conjures long-vanished mammoths and dinosaurs on a journey back to the dawn of evolution

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Metaphysical Animals — the women philosophers who countered logical positivism

    A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Control by Adam Rutherford — the past and present dangers of eugenics

    The broadcaster and geneticist takes a clear-sighted look at a troublesome ideology

  • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The best new writing about climate change

    From plastic squid to a plea for veganism — a round-up of books about planetary havoc and what we can do about it

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    What I Wish People Knew About Dementia — uplifting depiction

    Practical and reassuring tale written with eloquence and insight about a disease which for years was presumed to rob sufferers of sentience

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Reality+ — looking forward to life in the metaverse

    David Chalmers’ rich and occasionally outlandish work of ‘technophilosophy’ argues that virtual reality is genuine reality

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Climate and environment

    Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his must-read titles

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Books
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2021?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Man from the Future — John von Neumann’s nuclear vision

    Ananyo Bhattacharya’s biography contrasts the scientist’s genius with his hawkish leanings — and cavalier attitude to using the atomic bomb

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Review
    Being You by Anil Seth — the construction of consciousness

    The neuroscientist says our perceptions have little to do with intelligence and everything to do with sensing our environment to stay alive

  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    Review
    Silent Earth by Dave Goulson — a plea for the pollinators

    Insects are essential to life on Earth — so what can we do to reverse their startling decline?

  • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
    Review
    Rationality by Steven Pinker — uncommon sense

    The Enlightenment torchbearer is eloquent in his defence of clear thinking and uncharitable to what he deems irrational belief

  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    Review
    Thinking Better by Marcus du Sautoy — maths’ greatest hits

    This romp through mathematical ideas doesn’t shy away from equations or challenging ideas but is always a model of clarity

  • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
    Review
    Spike by Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja — ignoring the science

    This scientist’s plague year journal gives fresh insight into the uneasy relationship between science and politics in the UK’s fight to constrain the pandemic

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Review
    Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green — cracking Covid

    Key members of Oxford’s scientific team reveal the exhaustive effort and care that went into the race to create a ‘vaccine for the world’

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Henry Mance
    Branson, Bezos and the pointless billionaire space race

    Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    Martin Wolf
    Martin Wolf introduces the Political Economy Club essay prize-winners

    On its 200th anniversary, the club asked how the ideas of Malthus and Ricardo apply to climate change and income today

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    FT Series
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  • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
    FT SeriesSummer books 2021
    Summer books of 2021: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

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