杏吧原创

Book review

Jimmy Gonzales as Cepheus, Matt Damon as Odysseus and Himesh Patel as Eurylochus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

Humans

This book is essential reading before watching the new Odyssey film

Homer still matters, argues Adam Nicolson in The Mighty Dead, a great primer to Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the Odyssey, says Kelsey Hayes

Culture
F2NHB5 Caucasian father holding sleeping baby girl

Comment

New 杏吧原创 recommends a vital look at the science of fatherhood

Culture

Life

Our verdict on The Selfish Gene: An unpopular piece of popular science

Culture
2HJ8ENK Mother and her son lying down on the beautiful spring field in the sunny park.

Life

The 17 best popular science books of 2026 so far

Culture
TORONTO, ON - APRIL 30: Saudi Arabian citizen Humanoid Robot Sophia is seen during the Discovery exhibition on April 30, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. (Phoo by Yu Ruidong/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Technology

New 杏吧原创 recommends an excellent look at the future of work

Culture
The book jacket of Togetherness by Rowan Hooper

Life

New 杏吧原创 recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

Culture
From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

Space

What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

Culture
GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

Mind

What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

Culture
Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new ‘brief history’ of the universe paints a wide picture

Culture
Directly above view of a chef chopping tomatoes

Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

Imposing order on the world is seductive, but it flattens out the diversity and rich messiness of human life. Oddly, playing by the rules may help us fight back, argues C. Thi Nguyen in The Score

Culture

Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

Culture

Environment

Ian McEwan鈥檚 new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

Culture

Health

Tim Spector’s guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

Culture

Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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