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A wry blue-collar mad scientist from Lincolnshire in the UK, Colin Furze tinkers in his garage making his strange whims a practical reality, constantly striving to create something bigger, faster and more bizarre than what came before it. It’s all a bit of a lark, but underneath the fun is a simple and powerful notion: as Furze says: ‘If we helped people out all the time,’ the way he now gets help from his neighbours and acquaintances, ‘God knows what would get made and done.’
Director: David Beazley
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Wellbeing
Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest
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Chemistry
Why do the building blocks of life possess a mysterious symmetry?
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Rituals and celebrations
A whale hunt is an act of prayer for an Inuit community north of the Arctic Circle
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Cosmology
Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse
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Music
The peculiar beauty of a song caught between composition and improvisation
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Rituals and celebrations
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Astronomy
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Politics and government
How it looked to Afghan women to see the Taliban return to power
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Love and friendship
Love looks a bit different for a chain-smoking couple in a small apartment
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