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Max Tegmark is Professor of Theoretical Physics at MIT in Boston in the US, and one of the world鈥檚 leading cosmologists.聽 In his new book , Max argues that the reason mathematics describes reality so perfectly, is because it IS reality.

Award-winning photographic artist Mishka Henner zooms out from the particular to the astronomical in his work.聽 He has created a scale model of our solar system in book form, and also stitches together freely available satellite images to create his own aerial perspectives; for example on controversial intensive cattle feedlots in the Midwest of the US.聽 (see our Gallery for examples of Mishka鈥檚 work)

Dr Sarah Parcak is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the US, and a .聽 Her specialism is in remote sensing - satellite archaeology, or as she puts it 鈥楽pace archaeology鈥�.聽 She tells how this emerging field is not only uncovering ancient Egyptian lost cities, but also the looting of artefacts from archaeological sites, a crime that has increased by 1000% since the Arab Spring in 2011.

Do you know someone who always manages to avoid buying a round in the pub, even when it's definitely their turn? Sarah Parcak proposes a novel solution to this problem.聽 Her idea is an automatic round tracking light system for each group in a pub.聽 It would detect when glasses at a table were nearly empty, and who had been at the cash register (by facial recognition of course).聽 A gentle 鈥測ou鈥檙e up next mate鈥� would appear before the individuals at the table who had not yet bought their rounds. The order of who buys does not matter- just that everyone contributes fairly.

The power of expectation; with a focus on wine, music and medical treatment.