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Explore the first glimpse of our cutting edge ideas programme coming to HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2026.
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Cosmology in Crisis
George Ellis, Adam Frank, Claudia de Rham
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Escaping the Shackles of Language
Martha Fiennes, Lera Boroditsky, Richard Sennett
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Everything We Knew about Economics is Wrong
Zia Yusuf, Paul Johnson, Zarah Sultana
New
Gutenberg vs Zuckerberg
Jimmy Wales, Cory Doctorow, Mary Harrington
Maps of the Mind
Simon Baron-Cohen, Karl Friston, Victoria Trumbull
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New Rebels and A Failed Establishment
Matt Goodwin, Thangam Debbonaire, Louisa Munch, Eric Kaufmann
Reason and Revolution
Rowan Williams, Cornel West, Susan Neiman
Gender Equality and the Freedom Trap
Minna Salami, Mary Harrington, Kathleen Stock
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In Search of Place and Purpose
James Orr, David Wengrow, Thangam Debbonaire
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The Mystery of the Self and the Body
The Unintelligible Universe
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The End of the Great Alliance
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Water is not H2O
Patriotism, Populism, and the Fate of Nations
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The Planck Paradox
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The Reckless and the Rational
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Neural Networks and Neural Nonsense
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The Not So Blind Watchmaker
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New Age, Old Gods
Lost in the Universe
Memes, Minds, and the Myth of Control
Work, Leisure, and the Meaning of Life
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Desire and Danger in the Age of Self Love
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The Age of the Illiberal Democracy
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Spacetime and the Framework of the World
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The Good, the Bad, and the Universal
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The Edge of the Known
The Return of the Grand Narrative
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Affluence and Its Aftershocks
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Doctors vs Machines
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Freedom, Democracy, and the Law
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One Giant Conflict for Mankind
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Trad Wives and New Feminists
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Music and The Sound of the Unsayable
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Warfare in the Academy
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The Edge of the World
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Judgement Day In A Post-Truth Age
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Closer to the Truth