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51动漫 recommends one-person play Every Brilliant Thing

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

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BOXBERG, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This lignite-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Environment

New book about the story of carbon dioxide is a rousing call to action

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Cassian Bilton in "Foundation," premiering July 11, 2025 on Apple TV+.

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Foundation’s new season has dramatic potential 鈥� but sadly falls flat

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Humans

Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (14138456b) An aerial photograph taken by drone shows the recently felled tree at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, Britain, 05 October 2023. The famous tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down on the night of 27 September 2023, leading to the arrests of a 16-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage. The tree appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and was part of the landscape for 200 years. One week after Britain's iconic Sycamore Gap Tree was felled, Northumberland, United Kingdom - 05 Oct 2023

Mind

A new book argues that revenge is an addiction 鈥� but doesn’t convince

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Society

A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

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Physics

Physicist Frank Close’s new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

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Space

A doe-eyed look at space exploration is inadequate for the zeitgeist

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Life

Grisly new book reveals what zombie insects can teach us

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Life

Robert Macfarlane is wrong to cast rivers as life forms in new book

We should protect Earth's rivers and forests with laws. But it is another matter to claim them as living beings, as Robert Macfarlane does in his new book Is a River Alive?

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Life

Chronicling nature activism in a coastal corner of India

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Space

Would we recognise alien intelligence, asks Adrian Tchaikovsky novel

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Life

51动漫 recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry

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Environment

Tim Winton’s post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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