Is the future in #spacesuits or in #robots?
Tim Peake and Loren Grush examine the human dimension in Space and The Six.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/space-tim-peake-the-six-loren-grush-book-review-richard-lea/
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After Time
What's next for Stephen Hawking's cosmology?
Thomas Hertog examines the universe from the top down in On the Origin of Time.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/on-the-origin-of-time-thomas-hertog-book-review-richard-lea/
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How Thoreau challenged our understanding of work, technology and the natural world
'The 3 per cent of the planet’s children who live in the US own 40 per cent of its toys'
Henry Hitchings on hyperabundance and the case for slow shopping https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/stuff-chip-colwell-book-review-henry-hitchings/
'We are natural, constitutional psychonauts. We’re built to travel between worlds'
Charles Foster on the uses of psychedelic drugs
The surprisingly modern history of carols
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/deck-the-hall-andrew-grant-book-review-brian-morton/
If there were an objective measure of Britishness – one might call it the Orwell-Major scale – then warm beer and the crack of leather on willow would certainly merit a seven. Topping the scale, however, with nine-point-something, would surely be carol singing. The text that defines a “traditional” British Christmas, after all, is A …
Why the Conservative Party faces an end to its political hegemony
Seamus Heaney’s letters reveal his kindness, and the weight of public expectation
Richard Lea
