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Buckminster Fuller

Technology

How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?

A new appreciation of design guru Buckminster Fuller shows how he shaped a world that now manages to see him as both quaint and challenging

An exotic, colourful buffet arrangement

Earth

Pests for dinner: Taking down invasive species a bite at a time

Space

Idle Motion’s Voyager struggles to clear the tower

oil

Earth

The Oracle of Oil: The man who predicted peak oil

cat

Environment

This is Your Brain on Parasites: strong stories, shaky science

Sara Pascoe

Humans

It’s not funny being female: A famous comic examines womanhood

video games

Humans

Can video games really create new knowledge?

Someone holds a bowl of a cocoa drink

Health

Can food get you high? We try a meal of psychoactive substances

spring books

Environment

Culture picks: Time to spring-clean your mind

cure

Health

Cure: Can the power of our minds help us heal ourselves?

A meticulously researched book about the healing power of the mind has much to offer, but with quacks aplenty we shouldn't abandon proper scepticism

Environment

Seven nature-writing books that capture the spirit of animals

Humans

Radical insights from The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

Humans

What is Paleolithic Art?: How to decode the shadows on the wall

Earth

Is delight or devil in the detail of this hedgerow homage?