Culture | History
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Chapter one
Introspection
Biology | Animals
What Pigeons Teach Us About Love
The sweet, avian romance of Harold and Maude.
Culture | Psychology
Autistic Prodigies Since “Rain Man”
Our evolving understanding of “the engineer’s disease.”
Chapter two
Construction
Culture | Sociology
Your City Has a Gender and It’s Male
Why city designers are increasingly thinking about the female perspective.
Ideas | Philosophy
The Reality of Color Is Perception
An argument for a new definition of color.
Culture | History
The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution
Stone’s silent sister in the archaeological record.
Chapter three
Juxtaposition
Culture | Neuroscience
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary
The neuroscientist explains why feelings evolved.
Biology | Neuroscience
Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings
Think feelings are important? You’re more right than you know.
Ideas | Memoir
What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?
Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out.
Chapter four
Superposition
Matter | History
The Radical Humanism of the Soviet Planetarium
This planetarium was hailed as a successor to Russian theater and the Orthodox Church.
Culture | Psychology
How Nostalgia Made America Great Again
When the present looks bleak, we reach for a rose-tinted past.
Biology | Animals
The Antelope Killing Fields
Why did two thirds of all saiga antelope die in a couple months?
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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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