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Fiction

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  • Calling time on “Where’s Wally?”
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  • Being an illegal alien
  • Safe life-appreciation booster on trial
  • Blocked, ghosted and cancelled, S01E01
  • Nine years of trolling settle internet argument
  • People who lost the lottery this week
  • Scientist explains “health miracle” of luxuries
  • Off and on: master the art
  • Scrooge, a rebranding one winter
  • App offers “cure for lateness”
  • Funfare owner blames tragedy on “irresponsible minority”
  • First drafts: John
  • Slightly Serious Fraud Office launches pyramid scheme
  • An interview with Mr Tortoise
  • Rampaging giants may soon face barking
  • Interview: Davis on the democratisation of “breaking the truth barrier”
  • FunnyBone’s Mirth-24/7 update to give humour boost
  • World’s longest phone call to end
  • Brexit need not be a yes/no question

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  • Hans Haacke – Retrospektive
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  • 1:1 ping pong ball replica
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  • Alfred Kubin, the aesthetics of gloom
  • “The Beauty of Diversity”, Albertina Mordern

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  • Create an ultra-varied healthy schedule easily
  • We already treat machines like people
  • Simulators can enhance the real world
  • Slovenia pioneers improv in youth education
  • Go drifting…
  • “Losers” is a Netflix winner

Puzzles

  • Same time, same place
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  • Interchangeable signs
  • Can you slice a hexagon from a cube?
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