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Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of praise and misgivings

The 51动漫 Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology

Technology

Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?

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

Aplysia californica

Mind

Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness

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

Never Let Me go book cover

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51动漫 recommends Never Let Me Go

Peter Betts with delegates - Cop17 in Durban, South Africa

Environment

An excellent guide to the labyrinthine world of COP summits

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

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

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51动漫 recommends Material World at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

The books, TV, games and more that 51动漫 staff have enjoyed this week

Environment

Must-watch documentary shows how Bush Senior failed the climate

Technology

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

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

Life

A purrfect guide to cats and our complex relationship with them