Simon Ings

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Book review: Noreena Hertz’s ‘The Lonely Century’

As Noreena Hertz dives into the world’s most pressing social issues, Simon Ings wonders if we’re really fixing the problems

The book describes some of the ways the private sector has tried to address our cultural atomisation

This is what human appetite has done to planet Earth

Preserving our diverse produce is not only good diet but it ensures we are able to maintain food security, says Simon Ings while reviewing Dan Saladino’s latest book

Humanity used to sustain itself on 6,000 species of plant. Now, for more than three-quarters of our calories, we gorge on just nine

Review: How ‘Shape’ explains the geometry of anything

Move over, Euclid. This thrilling history takes us into crazy dimensions and ‘bubbling randomness’

Shape is anything but a straight story

What makes Wikipedia click? Online encyclopedia is 20

Wikipedia, which celebrates its 20th year this month, is one of the great creations of our century – so why the snobbery? Simon Ings reviews Wikipedia@20

Wikipedia has pricked the pretensions of the humanities like no other cultural project

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