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Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton

Culture

TOPSHOT - Workers including restaurant staff look at their phones during a break while sitting on a bench in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores

Culture

Never Let Me go book cover

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Never Let Me Go

Culture

A global love letter to nature, Super Nature is an immersive exploration of our world today, filmed exclusively on the original home movie format, Super 8. Led by filmmaker Ed Sayers, we?re invited on a spellbinding journey of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth - human and non-human - as people embrace beauty, abundance and loss. Embracing all we have, and all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing. Silver-washed Fritillary butterfly in close-up feeding from purple flowers, filmed on Super 8. PRESS ENQUIRIES: SOPHIA HAMMOND SOPHIA@MARGARETLONDON.COM Stills: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cnSqOOSw-8zVKLFZCotrg9SzJ3XjOQd0

Life

Nature documentary shot on Super 8 film is ravishing and unpredictable

Culture

An aerial view of downtown San Jose California skyline taken 06-16-2021. San Jose is the core urban hub of high technology referred to as Silicon Valley.

Health

Chilling book exposes true cost of tech bros' immortality dreams

Culture

Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

Culture

The Whie House Effect

Environment

Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

Culture

A new festival at Kew Gardens explores sustainable fashion through art, plants and design. Material World opens 20 September.

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Culture

Beyond Human series. Collage of human, geometric and natural forms on the subject of inner reality, mental health, imagination, mysticism, thinking and dreaming.; Shutterstock ID 164294465; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other:

Technology

If you love AI, you'll love Ken Liu's new cyberpunk thriller

Culture

Grass Paperback by Sheri S. Tepper

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Sheri S. Tepper's science fiction novel Grass

The books, TV, games and more that ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week

Culture

Comment

Del Toro's Frankenstein is a sumptuous take on a classic parable

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Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them

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Life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends Horizon: Secrets of the brain

Culture

Earth

The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

Culture

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