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  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    Weekend long reads
    How to heal our planet

    Four new books on climate change offer answers to one of the 21st century’s most pressing dilemmas

  • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
    Five books that explain viruses and how they spread

    Here’s what to read to understand the coronavirus outbreak in the context of history

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2020
    Review
    The Rules of Contagion — how a virus spreads

    An infectious disease expert applies mathematics to explain the spread and control of outbreaks

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    Review
    The Great Pretender — undercover mission that shook psychiatry

    Gripping tale of a psychologist who faked madness to infiltrate 1970s mental hospitals

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    Review
    The Bilingual Brain — the power of linguistics

    Albert Costa explores how bilingualism remains freighted with prejudice

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Health

    Anjana Ahuja selects her must-read titles

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    Review
    We Are the Weather — how to save the planet?

    Jonathan Safran Foer asks: what will it take to spur us to act in a crisis that feels distant?

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    Human Compatible — can we rein in a superintelligence?

    Stuart Russell’s book sidesteps sci-fi hype with its serious overview of the AI challenge

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Review
    The Slow Moon Climbs — the evolution of menopause

    A scholarly work on the role and treatment of menopause

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2019
    Review
    The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future — the highs and lows

    Andrew Blum’s book tells the story of how science made John Ruskin’s dream of a global meteorological machine a reality

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2019
    Review
    James Lovelock’s Novacene — are we a step on the way to AI?

    The Gaia theorist sees at least one reason why superintelligent machines might want to keep humans around

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
    Summer books of 2019: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his mid-year reads

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
    Summer books of 2019: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his mid-year reads

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne — engineering a better world

    Former boss of BP calls for greater imagination in planning and design to advance society at large

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Homing by Jon Day — pigeons and the sense of home

    Day’s book melds nature writing with urban grit to examine our urge to take root

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
    What got us to the Moon (and back) in 1969?

    Fifty years on, it is time to reappraise the audacity and political will behind Apollo 11

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    Review
    Superior by Angela Saini — are we all created equal?

    Race science is undergoing a revival, after its horrific climax in the 20th century

  • Friday, 10 May, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson — quantity of quality

    From the poverty-obesity link to how supply chains push for a dietary monoculture, it’s harder than ever to eat healthy

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    FT Books Essay
    Einstein, quantum theory and the battle for reality

    Has physics been hijacked by an anti-realist philosophy?

  • Friday, 29 March, 2019
    Review
    The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon — sexist science

    A clever study into flawed research and gender-based misconceptions of the mind

  • Friday, 22 March, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Four Horsemen — polemics from the high priests of New Atheism

    Dawkins, Harris, Dennett and Hitchens have yet to instigate their vaunted revolution

  • Friday, 8 March, 2019
    ReviewEnvironment
    The Uninhabitable Earth — future imperfect

    David Wallace-Wells optimistically navigates prophecies of social apocalypse

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    Review
    The Royal Society by Adrian Tinniswood — social science

    How did an eccentric gathering of professional scientists and aristocratic amateurs create a groundbreaking academy?

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