Culture | Sociology
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Chapter one
Boundaries
Culture | Food
Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food
How the chili pepper got to China.
Culture | Fiction
The Cost of Blood
When corporations run the government and any crime can be bought.
Chapter two
Environments
Biology | Climate
Is Fixing the Climate Incompatible with American Ideals?
Inalienable rights in the age of carbon dioxide.
Biology | Environment
Reinventing Staten Island
The ecological philosophy of turning a garbage dump into a park.
Culture | Environment
Is This Man the Elon Musk of E-Waste?
Eric Lundgren’s electric car goes farther than a Tesla. He’s also going to prison.
Chapter three
Input
Biology | Technology
Blood Spatter Will Tell
How the science of blood spatter forensics is evolving.
Matter | Climate
Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
A geologist explains that climate change is not just about a global average sea rise.
Ideas | Sociology
Do Religious People Really Have a Problem with Evolution?
My journey into the middle ground of the science-religion culture war.
Chapter four
Constraints
Culture | Psychology
There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought
A behavioral scientist unravels one of our most cherished conceptions.
Biology | Health
Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness.
Culture | Cognitive Science
This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths
Nick Chater argues our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world.
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
What If Only Females Could See Color?
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Numbers
How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge the Search for New Particles
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