Matter | Physics
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Chapter one
Hunches
Biology | Physiology
How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster
For one thing, you won’t like IPAs.
Biology | Science Practice
The Trouble With Scientists
How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.
Numbers | Philosophy
Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences.
Chapter two
Undefined
Matter | Physics
Physics Has Demoted Mass
Modern physics has taught us that mass is not an intrinsic property.
Matter | Astronomy
Is There Beer in Space?
How the emptiness of the void got filled.
Ideas | Philosophy
Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.
Numbers | Math
How to Teach Science with Sugar and Cream
High school teachers are bringing ice cream into the lab.
Chapter three
Landscapes
Biology | Linguistics
The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence
The surprising forces influencing the complexity of the language we speak and write.
Culture | Fiction
Andy Weir Visits the Moon
The best-selling writer of “The Martian” has a new book out, and it’s set closer to home.
Culture | Psychology
How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Biology | Animals
When Mollusks Fall in Love
Two stories from the remarkable work of Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Chapter four
Groundwork
Culture | Anthropology
Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions
What we don’t tell our children.
Biology | Evolution
The Mate Selection Trapdoor
Tracing the evolution of hidden sexual preferences.
Biology | Psychology
Men Are Better At Maps Until Women Take This Course
A bit of education can erase a definitive cognitive gap between men and women.
Biology | Evolution
Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful
Uncovering the nature of sexual selection.
Chapter five
To Be
Culture | Linguistics
Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem
Answers to questions and questions that cannot be answered.
Matter | Physics
Actually, There Is a Time Like the Present
Think there’s no time like the present? Modern physics begs to differ.
Culture | Psychology
What Lurks Behind Rabid Sports Fandom?
Hooliganism comes down to a fear of death.
Numbers | Computer Science
Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition
The chief technology officer of one of the world’s largest hedge funds talks data.
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