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New Scientist recommends: Ai Weiwei's moving Making Sense exhibition

The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week

By Liz Else

7 June 2023

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense 07 April ? 30 July 2023 the Design Museum? ? Image courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio

Ai Weiwei

Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio

This week, I’ve been blowing my mind with Vaclav Smil and Ai Weiwei (pictured above).

From viruses to innovation, there’s little that polymath Smil hasn’t written about in 40-plus books. If you don’t know him, start with Size, his latest, where he reveals what happened when US dinner plates got bigger, and how Jonathan Swift made the giants and Lilliputians in Gulliver’s Travels the “wrong” size. Plus, did you know that incomes in China are as unequally distributed as those in the US?

Artist-activist Ai did. His exhibition, …

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