Allissa Richardson: ‘It’s telling that we’re OK with showing black people dying’
The author and academic on why smartphones have been a game changer in African Americans’ struggle against police brutality – and the ethics of sharing violent images
Sir Paul Nurse: ‘The UK has taken a leap several decades into the past’
The Nobel prize-winning scientist on Covid-19 and the burden of Brexit
From ‘alert’ to ‘zoom’: Steven Poole’s lexicon of lockdown
From ‘Covid-secure’ offices to healthcare ‘heroes’ bracing for a new ‘wave’, the language around coronavirus is infected with political rhetoric
Magdalena by Wade Davis review – a journey down Colombia’s river of dreams
Dancing, blue turtles and disreputable backstreets ... a powerful writer journeys down Colombia’s great river
Katie Mack: ‘I didn’t anticipate being in a pop song when I went off to study physics’
The cosmologist, author and Twitter sensation on ‘heat death’, getting heckled by Stephen Hawking – and being name-checked on a No 1 album
False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg; Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger – review
Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A Kendra Greene – review
Iceland’s idiosyncratic museum collections – from rocks to sea monsters – provoke delightful reflections from an American artist and essayist
Lyfe: a new word for aliens that takes a leaf out of life
Scientists claim that if we ever find extraterrestrial life, it may be so unrecognisable that it needs a new term. But lyfe is not as alien as it looks
Carl Bergstrom: ‘People are using data to bullshit’
The evolutionary biologist on data manipulation, fake news, and the importance of using science as a lie detector
The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all
The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way, says the Guardian’s Environment editor, Damian Carrington
x + y by Eugenia Cheng review – an end to the gender wars?
A bold and optimistic theory of gender and cooperation, based on the insights of maths
Ron Johnston obituary
Human geographer who showed that voters are influenced not only by their beliefs, but by where they live and work
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw review – how numbers can mislead us
From Covid-19 to the tobacco industry to the climate crisis ... a punchy, amusing history of the deliberate misuse of statistics
Michael Glickman obituary
Architect who researched and wrote about the mathematical sophistication of crop circles
Having anxiety and agoraphobia holds you back. But there are positives to be found…
If I hadn’t experienced anxiety and agoraphobia and the therapy that resulted from them, I wouldn’t now understand human complexities as I do, writes Charlotte Levin