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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

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'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'

As the 91av Book Club embarks on its read for March, Art Cure, author Daisy Fancourt gives a sneak preview into the myriad ways in which the arts can improve our health

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt

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Moises Arias

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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Pierre Huyghe

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91av recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Tim Winton on why he tackled climate change in his novel Juice

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Tim Winton on why he tackled climate change in his novel Juice

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GERMANY. 1990. Celebrating the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990 at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin.

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What to read this week: Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

In this extract from the February read for the 91av Book Club, we meet the protagonist of Tim Winton’s Juice, driving across a scorched landscape in a future version of Australia

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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

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Sierra Greer discusses her award-winning sex robot novel 'Annie Bot'

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Society

Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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