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Don't miss: Apollo 10 1/2, a fantastical tale of a boy sent to space

30 March 2022

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sees Richard Linklater use the hallucinatory animation style of his A Scanner Darkly to tell the fantastical tale of a young space fan living in Houston, Texas, in 1969, when anything felt possible. Via Netflix.

Katie Paterson in the studio, 2022. — John McKenzie/courtesy the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

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features an urn full of dust gathered by artist Katie Paterson from meteorites, rocks, corals and other detritus. From 9 April, it will be the focal point of an exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, UK, that explores our planet’s past and future.

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, by behavioural ecologist Lee Alan Dugatkin, reveals the realpolitik behind the lives of sweet-looking creatures from meerkats to field mice, as he examines the eternal struggle for dominance in nature.

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