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• Language: Could sartorial competence help win the election?

• Human sciences: The alternate universe in which Tottenham are top

• History: What the world gets wrong about ‘civilisation’

• The arts: What George Orwell could teach us about Israel and Palestine

• The arts: Let’s pause for breath and consider our shared humanity

• Technology: Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: - The machines we have now are not conscious’

• Natural sciences: Gillian Anderson wants us to find her G Spot

• The arts: Ways of seeing, ways of knowing

• History: On Savage Shores — overturning Columbus’s ‘discovery’ narrative

• The arts, History — Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

• The arts, History: Growing list of books targeted in America’s school culture wars

• Natural sciences, Mathematics: ‘Magic numbers’ are clouding the climate debate

• ESS: Would carbon food labels change the way you shop?

• Language, History: Ryanair forces South African customers to prove ID with Afrikaans test

• The arts, History: Balenciaga’s trashed trainers tap into fashion controversy

• The arts, History: Where are the black people in Old Master paintings?

• Natural and human sciences: The race to curb global warming

• Technology: David Chalmers — ‘We are the gods of the virtual worlds we create’

• Human sciences: Graphics of the year — making sense of 2021

• Technology: Workers demand gig economy companies explain their algorithms

• Human sciences: Climate change could bring near-unliveable conditions for 3bn people, say scientists

• Natural sciences: Covid revealed what science can do when funding is found

• Natural sciences: Fires and floods: can science link extreme weather to climate change?

• Human sciences: We must face facts — even the ones we don’t like

• Knowledge & the knower: Mr Spock is not as logical as he’d like to think

• Human sciences: Daniel Kahneman: ‘Everything I’ve done has been collaborative’

• The arts: What makes an iconic painting? The National Gallery’s top 12 works

• Human sciences: Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid

• Language: A deep dive into the wormhole of sci-fi invention

• Natural & human sciences: Brazil’s vaccination hindered by bottlenecks and a sceptical leader

• History: The backlash against colonialism holds lessons in guilt and gratitude

• Language: Year in a word: Cancelled

• Natural sciences: What we have learnt about the limits of science