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The Point Weekend Quiz

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WHAT'S NEW

The Point Weekend Quiz

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How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.

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OPINION

Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Vanishing Act

Natalie Kyriacou
Natalie Kyriacou

Across the globe, an amazing orchestra of animal life is playing out in  wondrous, quirky detail, revealing the resilience and spectacle of nature.

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Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Vanishing Act

OPINION

The value humans place in intellect at the expense of other forms of intelligence

Jane Rawson
Jane Rawson

Humans are bad at valuing the things we are not good at. We bundle our strengths together and call them intelligence, then say that intelligence is the best thing to have. And we valorise sight above all the other senses. Hearing once meant much more to us, but we have pushed it to the periphery of our lives.

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The value humans place in intellect at the expense of other forms of intelligence

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The Weekend Point Quiz

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WHAT'S NEW

The Weekend Point Quiz

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How well have you kept up with the week's stories? Take the quiz and find out.

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