Macunaima Michio Kaku Ruth Aylett and Patricia Vargas

Ruth Aylett and Patricia Vargas discuss the history of our fascination with robots-from chatbots and prosthetics to autonomous cars and robot swarms

and the redwood forests of California

King of the Blues

particularly in the film's unforgettable crowd scenes

We don't see power as finite and hoard it

Macunaima Michio Kaku Ruth Aylett and Patricia VargasA brilliant new translation of the Brazilian modernist epic that aims to capture the country's complex identity. Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaima, by Mario de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaima and his brothers as they leave their home in the northern Amazon for a whirlwind tour of Brazil, cramming four