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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging

In this informative book, Patrick House explores interpretations of consciousness through the story of a teenager who laughed during brain surgery when a surgeon artificially stimulated her neural activity

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Technology

Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence

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Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

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DY5ANJ Which way to go?

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Future Stories review: Has thinking about the future got even harder?

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

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Humans

Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms

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Humans

Beware the rise of corporate rituals designed to manipulate employees

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People instinctively run at their most energy-efficient speed

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Ancient footprints are a welcome new window on ancient people’s lives

Studies of fossil footprints are showing us intimate snapshots of ancient peoples' lives. They are a fantastic addition to our archaeological toolbox – as long as we don't try to over-interpret the evidence

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Mind

Laughter Lab at London’s Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

Culture

Humans

Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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Humans

Why are we good and evil? A single quality may be at the root of it

Features

Humans

Why do we grieve? The surprising origin of the feeling of loss

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