Don’t miss: Emotional veg, antique innovations and spooky maths

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Little Joe stars Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw as emotionally stoppered horticultural researchers threatened by plants more wedded to life than they are. In selected UK cinemas from 21 February.

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The Secret History of the Future, hosted by The Economist‘s Tom Standage and Slate‘s Seth Stevenson, explores the prehistory of some very modern-sounding innovations, including the world’s first cyberattack – in 1834.

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The Magicians: Great minds and the central miracle of science (Faber & Faber) is Marcus Chown’s hymn to mathematics and its supernatural (or at any rate baffling) ability to predict truths about the physical world.