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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

From a child's curiosity about a visiting missionary to fighting oil companies, Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo's autobiography shows the journey of an extraordinary Indigenous woman

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The Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. Plate 24. Watercolour on paper. Signed lower left Mrs Withers Delt. Painter to Her Majesty. 44.4 cm. x 35.2 cm., slotted onto page. c.1825.

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51�� recommends Now You See Us at the Tate Britain

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Nicki Minaj???s iconic Barbie pendant???which boasts 54.47 carats of diamonds on 18-karat gold and bright Barbie-pink enamel???was made by Ashna Mehta in 2022 and is the most recent commissioned by Minaj, whose first Barbie pendant dates to 2009.

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51�� recommends Ice Cold: An exhibition of hip-hop jewelry

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Humanoid robots facing each other, illustration

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Sting film still (2024)

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

In a social world, being alone (by choice or not) is complex. Solitude: The science and power of being alone by Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen and Thuy-vy T. Nguyen brings us up to date

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Why a new literary prize for climate fiction will make a difference

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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51�� recommends Child, a podcast on our first stages of life

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