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Planet of the Apes

Humans

Don’t miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

A 50th-anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes, the latest installment of Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast, and a game where everything is left to the players to decide

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lemons

Humans

Ceramic art is a clever foil for a collector’s science teaching aids

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Young Sheldon poster

Technology

Don’t Miss: Comic promise, robot TV and a festival of errors

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Aborigines

Humans

Edge of Memory: Distrusting oral tradition may make us more ignorant

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laughing baby

Humans

The Neuroscience of Emotion: time to take our emotions very seriously

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video game characters

Life

Don’t miss: Video game-making, circus science and unusual brains

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shouting at digital assistant

Humans

Sandra: A world where AI is less artificial than it seems

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Humans

Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

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Humans

North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller

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Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins

Environment

How women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice

From natural disasters to food and water shortages, women are more affected by climate change than men. An inspiring podcast looks at their fightback – starting in court

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Life

Don’t Miss: surreal objects, loving termites, and ethical dilemmas

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Environment

How a tiny festival could save Scotland’s coastal culture

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Life

Preserved ocean creatures make landfall in London

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Life

Buzz: A beautiful book shows why modern bees are hippy wasps at heart

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