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‘Have you ever lied to me?’ What do you wish you’d asked your mother as a child?
Affected by Asperger’s syndrome and struggling with the social aspects of school, 12-year-old Joshua Littman knows his brain functions a bit outside the norm for children his age. Animated with humour and heart by the Rauch Brothers, in Q&A this precocious boy and his mother engage in a refreshingly unguarded conversation about their relationship, and the struggles they’ve each faced trying to find happiness with acutely sensitive minds.
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Life stages
Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old
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Film and visual culture
A series of animated illusions illustrates how we project depth on to flat surfaces
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Public health
When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued
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Cognition and intelligence
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal intelligence could help to root out human bias
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The environment
A climate activist living off-grid faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school
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Neurodiversity
What it’s like to have aphantasia, the inability to visualise images in the mind’s eye
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Cognition and intelligence
No, Mozart isn’t a brain hack for babies – here’s how music really affects intelligence
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Making
How sky-high dreams launched one man’s audacious life in homemade rocketry
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Life stages
A filmmaker reflects on his adolescence with the help of some long-lost friends
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