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The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer Profle Books, [pounds sterling]25, pp. 416 The memory of Tsutomu Yamaguchi will be with me for [...]

Silicon Valley's big beasts once peacefully coexisted. But now the growing conflict between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook could transform our relationship with technology. They are the feuding offspring of [...]

Scott Galloway tells me he runs 'the most expensive streaming video service in the world'. Sadly, he only gets 2 per cent of the take. His streamer is a course [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem PG, Nationwide Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) began as a joke in 1984, a parody of the superhero culture of the time. It was [...]

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 12A, Nationwide Blockbuster action movies are designed to stun the audience into submissive acceptance. Complexity, humanity, emotion and beauty are reduced to a [...]

Are we all living in a computer simulation? Is the world we imagine to be real simply virtual reality instead, an elaborate computer program? That sounds ridiculous, but nonetheless it's [...]

A new US military report into UFO sightings presents compelling evidence. But of what kind of life form, if any? The release last week (25 June) of a Pentagon report [...]

At the tail end of last year, Chinese scientists claimed they had achieved something world-changing. In a widely circulated paper, the researchers said they had developed an algorithm run on [...]

Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford Bodley Head, 368pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Approaching the end of this strange and absorbing book Matthew Crawford [...]

Derek Parfit was one of the world's most influential moral philosophers. Though he suffered from aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, he also took photographs, returning repeatedly to the [...]

The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall Mark W Moffett Head of Zeus, 480pp. 20 [pounds sterling] Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change Jared Diamond [...]

Back in 1994, when Bill Gates was childless and worth only $6bn, he told me his children, when they arrived, would inherit none of his money. 'I just don't think,' [...]

The Beatles song 'Getting Better' is a small masterpiece of ambiguity. It shifts between the temperaments of Paul McCartney--sunny, positive--and John Lennon--sceptical, negative. Here's the chorus: I've got to admit [...]

Red Rocket 18, Nationwide Mikey (Simon Rex) first appears striding down a road in utterly wrecked jeans and shirt. He is carrying nothing and seems to be going nowhere until [...]

The 'hood is cool--listen to Wu-Tang Clan, Boyz n Da Hood, JAY Z and just about every other black rapper. The 'burb is uncool--see Arcade Fire, Blur, Nirvana, even the [...]

In his book The Future of the Mind, the excitable physicist and futurologist Michio Kaku mentions Darpa. This is America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the body normally credited with [...]

Cry Macho 12, Nationwide Clint Eastwood is 91; Cry Macho may well be his last film. Or maybe not. He has, after all, been directing himself as majestically craggy old [...]

Steve Jobs died on 5 October 2011, the day after the launch of the iPhone 4S. His chosen successor, Tim Cook, was already installed as Apple's chief executive and, after [...]

Sheila Heti Eat Me: the Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin (Knopf, $24.95) by Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreno may look like just a cookbook but it's secretly an experimental [...]

Nobody loved Bowater House in Knightsbridge. The demolition of this late-1950s, modernist mess in 2006 was greeted with general relief. Yet it did have one virtue. Through its core was [...]

Two numbers from Apple Inc's recent quarterly results provide a cold but fitting memorial to the company's co-founder, the late Steve Jobs. Thefirstis$8i.6bn,thecash,ornear-cash,inthe company's accounts. The second is 40.3 per [...]

The same thing happens in both the first and second episodes of BBC2's new comedy series Rev. StSaviour's, a run-down inner-city church with usually a tiny congregation, is suddenly filled [...]

Good Grief, Charlie Brown!Somerset House, until 3 MarchFor the hundredth, possibly the thousandth, time, Lucy van Pelt offers to hold the football for Charlie Brown so he can kick it. [...]

Very few of us can be sure that our jobs will not, in the near future, be done by machines. We know about cars built by robots, cashpoints replacing bank [...]

To hardline atheists, it is now unreasonable and 'dramatically peculiar ' to argue that religion is not altogether evil. How did such intolerance become acceptable to rational minds? Two atheists [...]

The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov Allen Lane, 432pp. £14.99 In June 2009, thousands of young Iranians took to the streets to protest against the [...]

The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection Tate Modern, until 7 May 2017 'Radical' is like 'creative', a word that has been enfeebled to the point [...]

We live in times where the power of religious belief can often appear terrifying. Yet in many countries religion is declining as dramatically as it is thriving in others. In […]

The Paradox of Choice: why more is less Barry Schwartz HarperCollins, 265pp, £14.99 Barry Schwartz writes: 'Because of a ubiquitous feature of human psychology, very little in life turns out […]

Lost in Space: the fall of Nasa and the dream of a new space age Greg Klerkx Secker & Warburg, 392pp, £18.99 The Space Shuttle looks what it is--a costly, […]