Childhood and adolescence

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Attached

Love and friendship

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Out of mind

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The warped self

Computing and artificial intelligence

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History of science

Science

Phrenology: the weirdest pseudoscience of them all?

Biology

Human evolution

Brains in a dish

Genetics

Sleep and dreams

Nightmares becalmed

Consciousness and altered states

Brain wifi

Am I my connectome?

The future

Myth and the mind

Rituals and celebrations

Philosophy of mind

Dance and theatre

Culture

To the core

Biography and memoir

The problem with prediction

History of technology

Gender and identity

What makes a woman’s body

Mood and emotion

In exile from the dreamscape

How close is too close?

Animals and humans

Family life

The biology of dads

Human reproduction

The need to touch

Pleasure and pain

Philosophy

The value of uncertainty

Cognition and intelligence

Politics is visceral

Political philosophy

Sexual dinosaurs

Philosophy of science

Nostalgia reimagined

History of ideas

Illness and disease

On Matthew’s mind

This is your brain on Pokémon

Teaching and learning

Frames of consciousness

It’s hard to fool a nose

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