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Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

1 February 2023

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Impulse review: An authoritative, if dry, sexual behaviours manual

1 February 2023

Impulse: The science of sex and desire by psychiatrists Jon Grant and Samuel Chamberlain delivers on its bid to answer our hidden questions about sex, but it can be a little perfunctory
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Pegasus review: Terrifying exposé of the world's most powerful spyware

1 February 2023

From French president Emmanuel Macron to ordinary whistle-blowers, the surveillance software Pegasus has been used to target thousands of people. Investigative journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud tell its story and explain why no one is safe

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