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Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

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Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word

Is a written culture necessary to make a better culture or better citizens? A smart, satisfyingly deep exhibition at the British Library leaves us wondering

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Gabbie Hanna

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The psychological dark side of sharing your daily life on YouTube

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Don't miss: Visualising inequality, space comms and a rare pregnancy

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How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything

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How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything

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Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

Mind

Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

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The experiment plans to test brain stimulation on volunteers in a prison

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Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government

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Lady on bench with heart ballon

Humans

Unhappy Valentine’s: Why bad memories of your ex are so hard to shake

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Don’t miss: Exploring your own delusions, playing with evolution

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A man covered in fake blood is being scared by another man holding a chainsaw and a woman with a scarred face who's holding him down

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51��s studied a ‘haunted house’ to understand why we love horror

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Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

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Prototyping in Tokyo review – Imagining a future full of lifelike tech

Is art more likely than old-school engineering to create the lifelike quality we will need in a world we share with machines? A robot show has surprising answers

Culture

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We all love Marie Kondo. So why is tidying up so hard?

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Taking ginger pills can make disgusting ideas more palatable

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Winning at work: How to manage your boss… and get that pay rise

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Winning at work: How to take the perfect stress-busting break

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