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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about sleep

Everyone needs great sleep, but this is tough in a world where other basic needs - like earning a living – jockey for position. Luckily, The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription has new ideas about how to be pragmatic about sleep

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Humans

The best science fiction books of 2022: Uncertainty, dystopia and hope

Culture

Silhouette of a man in a tent. He reads a book and drinks tea. Winter time. Pine forest.

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The best non-fiction books of 2022: A feast for the soul

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A Fractured Infinity review: Multiverse plot trope comes of age

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A Fractured Infinity review: Multiverse plot trope comes of age

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A man enjoying a beautiful sunset at Muriwai Beach, Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Varieties of Spiritual Experience review: A meticulous guide

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Telluria review: Political dystopia from a bravura Russian writer

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Sentience review: Inside a controversial new idea about consciousness

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Futuristic cyborg religion and control. Image on the projection screen is my own render, already approved and in my portfolio. This is entirely 3D generated image.

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The Mountain in the Sea review: A remarkable study of consciousness

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging

Culture

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Humans

Two eye-opening new books delve into the world of animal communication

Tom Mustill's How to Speak Whale and Karen Bakker's The Sounds of Life explore what we know about the way life on Earth communicates, from whales to coral reefs. They are both must-reads

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The Seed Detective review: Why we must save rare vegetables

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Two provocative new novels inject some fantasy into the sci-fi outlook

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Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

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Don't Miss: The Handmaid's Tale returns for what may be the last time

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