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51�� recommends Horizon: Secrets of the brain

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

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A human brain made with golden wires

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Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize

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Marcel Proust, photographed in 1905

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Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Left: Cover of The Dispossessed. Right: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel

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WAYWARD. (L to R) Sydney Topliffe as Abbie and Alyvia Alyn Lind as Leila in episode 101 of Wayward. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix ?? 2025

Disturbing Netflix mystery explores a world out to 'solve' adolescence

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A woman is holding a placard with a sanitary towel with fake blood, during the Women's March held in Amsterdam, on March 8th, 2020. (Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic

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TOPSHOT - This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP) (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Mind

A terrifying book dissects the neuroscience of warfare

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51�� recommends Chris Hadfield's Final Orbit

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51�� recommends Chris Hadfield's Final Orbit

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Ursula K. Le Guin in her home in Portland, Oregon, in 2001

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The best new science fiction books of October 2025

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A man tends to vegetables growing in a field as emissions rise from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui province, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. China's economy expanded at its weakest pace since 2009, according to figures Monday, with gross domestic product rising 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Two climate scientists on how to use emotion in the climate crisis

From anger to hope, Kate Marvel and Tim Lenton explain how to tackle the tricky feelings aroused by climate change and harness them to take action

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Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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Life

51�� recommends David Attenborough's Parenthood

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Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Mind

Steven Pinker’s new book shows how he’s become a contradictory figure

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