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If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

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If we can't change the world, does anything we do matter?

It’s easy to be disheartened by the puniness of our existence – yet perhaps for the first time in human history, everything depends on decisions each one of us makes

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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

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Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

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You are not one person: Why your sense of self must be an illusion

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You are not one person: Why your sense of self must be an illusion

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Think your sense of self is located in your brain? Think again

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Think your sense of self is located in your brain? Think again

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You are stardust: The long view of when your existence really began

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You are stardust: The long view of when your existence really began

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bamboo rafts

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Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon

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Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs

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Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs

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Why you probably aren't as moral as you think you are

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Why you probably aren't as moral as you think you are

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Social community seamless pattern of diverse people group in modern style, colorful crowd loop background with mixed men and women.

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What can we learn from failed attempts to change people's behaviour?

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Llamas may have been buried alive in ritual sacrifice by the Incas

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Llamas may have been buried alive in ritual sacrifice by the Incas

The remains of llamas killed in mass sacrifices by the Incas have been found, and there is no sign of injury – suggesting the animals were buried alive

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Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction

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City dwellers are just as helpful as people in towns and villages

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Millions of missing female births predicted in India in next decade

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Earliest known beds are 227,000-year-old piles of grass and ash

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