Numbers | Technology
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Chapter one
Other People
Culture | Fiction
Defy the Stars
What’s the real difference between man and machine?
Ideas | Physics
The Multiverse As Muse
The uncertainty of quantum mechanics provided a perfect literary model for Modernist ideas.
Matter | Aliens
Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial?
Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.
Matter | Physics
Does Dark Matter Harbor Life?
An invisible civilization could be living right under your nose.
Chapter two
Taxonomies
Culture | Sociology
The Hidden Sexism of How We Think About Risk
If men take more risks than women, it’s not because of biology.
Ideas | Aliens
If ET Calls, Think Twice About Answering
Why some say searching for ET is best done quietly.
Ideas | Fiction
A Complicated Question
A child asks, and war answers.
Matter | Physics
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
Chapter three
Conflicts
Culture | Linguistics
A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy
If language began as a virus, here’s how it spread.
Culture | Sociology
The Oldest Problem in American Prisons
U.S. prisons aren’t prepared for an inmate population that is getting older and sicker.
Culture | Linguistics
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
What the Bard can teach science about language and the limits of the human mind.
Culture | Psychology
Are You a Self-Interrupter?
Distraction in the technology age.
Chapter four
Reordering
Ideas | Physics
The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation
Why the majority of physicists are on one side of a recent exchange of letters.
Biology | Genetics
What Both the Left and Right Get Wrong About Race
Setting the scientific record straight on race, IQ, and success.
Biology | Information Theory
Nature, the IT Wizard
Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency.
Culture | Sociology
The Case for Less Solidarity
The surprising effects of reducing empathy for your own ingroup.
Biology | Genetics
Ingenious: Dalton Conley
The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.
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