Culture | Psychology
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Chapter one
Near
Biology | Animals
Can a Cat Have an Existential Crisis?
Treating my cat for depression caused me to question the state of anxiety in animals and us.
Biology | Environment
This Is Urban Wildlife Biology
Minks in TV graveyards, and other stories of Chicago’s hidden animals.
Chapter two
Distant
Matter | Astronomy
So Can We Terraform Mars or Not?
Elon Musk wants to engineer Mars’ atmosphere. Can he?
Culture | Psychology
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace.
Matter | Physics
Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model?
How five anomalous events at two neutrino experiments provide evidence for supersymmetry.
Chapter three
Inner
Numbers | Economics
The Robot Economy Will Run on Blockchain
What finance will look like when it is controlled by machines.
Culture | Literature
Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?
Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society.
Biology | Animals
Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew
When zoologists tried to change the words for bat and shrew, the Führer was not amused.
Chapter four
Outer
Ideas | Technology
The Selfish Dataome
Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa?
Ideas | Philosophy
Why We Still Need Monsters
Stephen T. Asma on what haunts us.
Biology | Health
The Rise of Cancer Immunotherapy
How Jim Allison saved a whole world.
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