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For most of our history, alcohol has been the technology we reach for to bond, celebrate, mourn and make peace. The Social Molecule asks what happens to human connection in an age of optimisation and individual wellness — when we increasingly put the bottle down.

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The molecule above is ethanol — the V represents a CH group in skeletal notation.

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