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The dentist that wants to calm patients with cuddles from dogs

9 March 2022

A dog-friendly dentist, a Dolly Parton NTF art series and fracking in your living room, in Feedback’s weird weekly roundup

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Time to take a long, hard look at humanity's future in the cosmos

9 March 2022

Progress in understanding nearly everything that lies beyond Earth has been immense, but it is timely to raise questions about stewardship of our own world

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The Cartographers review: A perceptive sci-fi love letter to maps

9 March 2022

In The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd’s latest work of magical realist speculative fiction, the characters have a habit of asking “what makes a map?”. The answer, it becomes clear, is its purpose, finds Sally Adee

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Make mistakes on purpose – it can dramatically boost your performance

9 March 2022

"Deliberate erring" offers a surprising but effective way to enhance your memory and improve how you perform in many unexpected areas of life, says David Robson

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Don't Miss: A new book exploring how AI can help us speak whale

9 March 2022

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey review: An emotive exploration of memory

9 March 2022

Samuel L. Jackson’s streaming debut is touching, yet somewhat lacking in mystery and suspense

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The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds

9 March 2022

From our long lives to our social skills and even language, zoologist Antone Martinho-Truswell argues that we are more like birds than we think

Geese may have been the first birds to be domesticated 7000 years ago

7 March 2022

Goose bones from Stone Age China suggest the birds were being domesticated there 7000 years ago, which could mean they were domesticated before chickens

Stonehenge may have been a giant calendar and now we know how it works

2 March 2022

The sarsen stones of the Stonehenge monument could have been designed as a calendar to track a solar year, with each of the stones in the large sarsen circle representing a day within a month