Ideas | Literature
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Chapter one
Bounds
Culture | Psychology
A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
Ideas | Sociology
Why Women Choose Differently at Work
Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
Chapter two
In Your DNA
Biology | Genetics
It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids
The humanzee is both scientifically possible and morally defensible.
Biology | Neuroscience
This Is Where Your Childhood Memories Went
Your brain needs to forget in order to grow.
Culture | Evolution
Heredity Beyond the Gene
What you pass on to your kids isn’t always in your genetic code.
Chapter three
Characters
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
Scary AI Is More “Fantasia” Than “Terminator”
Ex-Googler Nate Soares on AI’s alignment problem.
Ideas | Neuroscience
Unhappiness Is a Palate-Cleanser
Why it’s impossible to always be happy.
Culture | Literature
Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.
Culture | Psychology
The Girl Who Smelled Pink
A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia.
Chapter four
Comparisons
Biology | Neuroscience
The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.
Biology | Neuroscience
Brain Damage Saved His Music
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
Ideas | Art
Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?
The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.
Chapter five
Histories
Biology | Genetics
Social Inequality Leaves a Genetic Mark
When genetic structure follows social structure.
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline
Why should studying AI behavior be restricted to those who make AI?
Culture | Sociology
How ISIS Broke My Questionnaire
I felt the impact of an attack by the terrorist group. So why didn’t my research data?
Ideas | Physics
When the Heavens Stopped Being Perfect
The advent of the telescope punctured our ideals about the nighttime sky.
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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Biology
Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
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Ideas
The Self Is Other People
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Numbers
How a Defense of Christianity Revolutionized Brain Science
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Matter
How ‘Oumuamua Got Shredded
Our solar system’s first houseguest—at least, the first one we have seen in our midst—is a strange one. Scientists have taken to calling it ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “Oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah”),…
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