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Don’t Miss: Craft power, killer brain cells and fostered chimps

This week, the power of craft in an age of big industry, a brain cell that turns assassin, and the chimps raised in human families

caricature of William Morris

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revels in lo-fi tech, including the work of William Morris and Walter Crane, from 24 January at Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House in Bowness-on-Windermere, UK.

book cover

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by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Ballantine) tells how microglia cells in the brain can affect memory, anxiety and depression.

chimpanzee puppet

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has its UK premiere at the Barbican Centre, London. In this puppet play from Nick Lehane, an ageing chimp pieces together memories of early life in a human family. It is based on real US experiments, where chimps were raised in human homes. The play runs from 21 to 25 January.

Topics: Books / Brain / Monkeys and apes / theatre

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