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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 31: Jarren Duran #16 of the Boston Red Sox hits a single during the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on July 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)

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Game of Edges review: Inside story of how data is transforming sport

As sport becomes more competitive and more corporate, using data to find that extra edge is vital, says Bruce Schoenfeld in his new book

4th July 2024 The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK. Image shows gardeners Amy Thorp and Joe Savage unveiling the Gympie Gympie plant in the Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates, only open on guided tours. A combination of dark, ivy-covered tunnels and flame-shaped beds creates an educational garden full of interest and intrigue, where the most dangerous plants are kept within giant cages. Visitors can learn about the poisonous plants but are strictly prohibited from touching them. Info from press release The most venomous of all plants arrives at Alnwick???s Poison Garden The Alnwick Garden???s award-winning Poison Garden is unveiling a stinger of a new addition this week with its home grown native Australian plant, Gympie Gympie. Also known as the ???Australian stinging tree???, the nettle-like shrub is known as the world???s most venomous plant and is said to be capable of delivering a sting similarly to being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. The plant is the latest to grow in the small but deadly Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden which hosts around 100 toxic, intoxicating and narcotic plants including Laburnum, Atropa, Belladonna, Opium Poppy and Marijuana. Picture Phil Wilkinson / The Alnwick Garden

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New 杏吧原创 recommends: The Poison Garden near Alnwick Castle

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Bridge review: An essential entrant into the multiverse genre

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King Coal review: Moving documentary shows bequest of a dying industry

Professor Lee Berger, palaeontologist, explorer and member of The National Geographic Society, gestures as he explains the scientific relevance of discovering Homo Naledi in the Rising Star caves system in The Cradle of Human Kind, on May 11, 2023. The news shakes the foundations of human evolution: world-renowned paleontologist Lee Berger announced on Monday that he had discovered the oldest graves ever found in South Africa, pushing back the first traces of mortuary practices by some 100,000 years . The oldest tombs discovered so far were found in Israel and Egypt at the beginning of the 20th century. They date from around 100,000 years before our era and house the remains of Homo sapiens, the direct ancestor of man. The burials unearthed in South Africa date from -200,000 to -300,000 years. (Photo by Luca Sola / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Cave of Bones review: Lee Berger on the discovery of Homo naledi

BONN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 23: A woman is seen illuminated in the window of a residential building on December 23, 2021 in Bonn, Germany. (Photo by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)

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Alone review: Insightful bestseller explores long-term singlehood

M0XCDJ URSULA LE GUIN American author at Gothenburgh Book fair 1990

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New 杏吧原创 recommends: The Left Hand of Darkness and The Big Sleep

Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

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How Oppenheimer addresses the paranoia around nuclear power

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Meg 2: The Trench review: Light on science, heavy on fun

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Talking Heads review: Cunning tale of how conversation creates worlds

The way conversation shapes our worlds and holds them together is cunningly teased apart by Shane O'Mara, a professor of experimental brain research

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The Underworld review: A gripping voyage into the deep ocean

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New 杏吧原创 recommends the board games Wingspan and Wavelength

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Foundation season two review: Will this epic live up to its promise?

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The best new science fiction books of August 2023