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Don't miss: Duet-2 lets you connect with complete strangers

New Scientist’s weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss

Humans 1 July 2020

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Duet-2 is a game from arts collective Invisible Flock on iOS and Android in which pairs of strangers establish a real, though mysterious, connection. Answer a question a day and share glimpses of your life with someone new.

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Sophie’s Planet is a book containing a series of letters that climatologist James Hansen wrote to his granddaughter Sophie, revealing how, as her generation grows, they can – and must – fight to preserve non-human life on Earth.

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Warrior Nun, streaming now on Netflix, is set in a world where Catholic superheroes battle demons. It is an oddly plausible set-up, based on over a quarter-century of Ben Dunn’s comic book tales of good versus evil.

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