2018 in culture: Best science books and shows of the year

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  Where Blade Runner began: 50 years of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  nature.com - Ananyo Bhattacharya

  Ananyo Bhattacharya toasts Philip K. Dick’s prescient science-fiction classic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick Doubleday: 1968. When …

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  Lessons from the Ebola front lines

  nature.com - Nahid Bhadelia

  Nahid Bhadelia appraises an analysis of the fraught campaign to contain the 2013–16 crisis. Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic …

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  Forgotten heroes of the Enigma story

  nature.com - Joanne Baker

  Polish codebreakers paved the way for Alan Turing to decrypt German messages in the Second World War. Joanne Baker commends a gripping tale. X, Y & Z: …

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  Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

  nature.com - Andrew Robinson

  Andrew Robinson celebrates the high notes in the mathematician’s inimitable musical oeuvre. In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer — who …

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  When suffragists kicked open the lab door

  nature.com - Elizabeth Bruton

  Elizabeth Bruton lauds a book tracing how women in wartime science blazed a path to the vote and beyond. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in …

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  Blood, sweat and tears in biotech — the Theranos story

  nature.com - Eric Topol

  Eric Topol extols a gripping account of the rise and fall of the US medical-testing company. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup …