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Chapter one
Patterns
Matter | Astronomy
Looking for a Second Earth in the Shadows
Scientists are blocking out the light of distant suns to look for life.
Numbers | Math
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
What math can teach us about finding order in our chaotic lives.
Chapter two
Natural
Biology | Environment
Stranger Places
Brief encounters with cuckoos.
Biology | Climate
When Climate Change Starts Wars
Rising temperatures are bringing ethnic tensions to a boil in Central Asia.
Biology | Animals
Predators, Prey, and Vodka
Surveying muskoxen in the Russian far north.
Chapter three
Personal
Culture | Neuroscience
How Women Came to Dominate Neuroendocrinology
A scientific field founded by men is now mostly female.
Culture | Psychology
Beyond Sexual Orientation
Sexual fluidity is a challenge to both traditional and alternative sexual narratives.
Culture | The Web
The Online Magazine You Can’t Read Online
A software engineer tackles the distractions of online reading.
Chapter four
Invented
Culture | Science Practice
Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me
Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science.
Culture | Fine Art
The Reinvention of Black
As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.
Biology | Genetics
Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think
A primer on the epigenome.
Chapter five
Universal
Culture | Sociology
The Euclidean Metrics of Trump’s Twitter Account
How online personalities are quantified and compared.
Matter | Astronomy
How to Survive Doomsday
The high technology that could help us live through the sun’s inevitable transformation.
Culture | History
My Mom, the Missile Computress
What it was like being among the first women in the US missile program.
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