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Discover how human memory works and why forgetting things is actually a superpower, in “Why do we forget?”. Also this issue: how animals see the world, Earth’s 4.5 billion-year tectonic evolution, inside a futuristic autonomous combat vehicle, why aeroplane toilets suck, how Mount Rushmore was built, the bird-beasts that terrorised America, plus much more.

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