Culture | Sociology
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Chapter one
Civilization
Numbers | Technology
How the Oil Pipeline Began
Pipeline fights have a longer history than you think.
Culture | History
Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science
How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.
Biology | Health
How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives
An interview with Eric Verdin, CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Chapter two
From Here to There
Culture | Sociology
Why New York Is Just an Average City
Understanding any city requires understanding how all cities scale.
Biology | Animals
How We Really Tamed the Dog
A daring experiment builds a new tame species in just 60 years.
Biology | Evolution
The Fly in the Primordial Soup
Hydrothermal vent models transform the origins of life from unlikely to near-inevitable.
Biology | Health
Ingenious: Jack Gilbert
The professor of surgery explains how health emerges from a healthy microbiome.
Chapter three
Out of the Wild
Biology | Food
Should You Feed Your Kid Probiotics?
It’s not as simple as you think.
Numbers | Math
The Strange Similarity of Neuron and Galaxy Networks
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
Matter | Physics
How Do You Say “Life” in Physics?
A new theory sheds light on the emergence of life’s complexity.
Biology | Animals
How to Hear Like a Champion Birder
Take a walk with the man building a Shazam for birds.
Chapter four
Open Your Eyes
Numbers | Math
Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark
The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it.
Biology | Paleontology
Gold Mining for Profit and Paleontology
How the Gold Rush and Fossil Rush came together.
Numbers | Music
How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music
I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.
Culture | Fiction
As the World Collapses
An exclusive glimpse into Jeff VanderMeer’s new apocalyptic novel, “Borne.”
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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