Culture | Psychology
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Chapter one
Happiness
Numbers | Technology
How Long Until a Robot Cries?
Identifying the mechanics of emotions.
Biology | Neuroscience
Why Happiness Is Hard to Find—in the Brain
Talking blobology with a neuroimaging researcher.
Chapter two
Poise
Biology | Climate
The Deep Time of Walden Pond
The science and history of the lake Thoreau made famous.
Culture | Psychology
Explaining the Unexplainable
When logic fails, stories and superstitions prevail.
Ideas | Philosophy
How Posture Makes Us Human
The philosophy and science of standing up straight.
Chapter three
The Heavens
Matter | Astronomy
How NASA’s Mission to Pluto Was Nearly Lost
The inside story of the New Horizons probe.
Ideas | Philosophy
My Own Personal Nothingness
From a childhood hallucination to the halls of theoretical physics.
Matter | History
The Popular Creation Story of Astronomy Is Wrong
The old tale about science versus the church is wide of the mark.
Chapter four
Health
Biology | Health
Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find
A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance.
Numbers | Technology
Lavatory Laboratory
How sanitation is following the cell phone model.
Culture | Anthropology
Are Suicide Bombings Really Driven by Ideology?
The surprising anthropology of group identity.
Chapter five
Truth
Culture | Health
How to Talk About Vaccines on Television
What one scientist has learned from years of media appearances.
Culture | Anthropology
Drums, Lies, and Audiotape
When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong.
Culture | Science Practice
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud.
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