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Chapter one
Cogs
Culture | Science Practice
Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?
The open nature of the science of classification virtually guarantees fights.
Biology | Genetics
What’s Wrong with Bananas
How industrial agriculture stole sex from our most important fresh fruit crop.
Chapter two
Timing
Matter | Astronomy
The Woman Who Reinvented the Moon
A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story.
Matter | Physics
Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics
To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal.
Culture | Animals
A Eulogy for a Cow
How commodified animals die.
Chapter three
Calibrating
Ideas | Philosophy
We Are All Bewildered Machines
Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.
Biology | Food
The Colors We Eat
Food color does more than guide us—it changes the experience of taste.
Culture | Science Practice
The Problem with Scientific Credit
Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.
Chapter four
Unwound
Biology | Food
Herbicide Is What’s for Dinner
How the biggest farming practice you’ve never heard of is changing your food.
Culture | Paleontology
Paving Over the Fossil Record
Why isn’t India doing more to protect its rare evolutionary record?
Culture | Psychology
An Rx for Doctors
A new psychology of control.
Chapter five
Order
Numbers | Technology
The $100 Million Bot Heist
The story of the world’s most-wanted cybercriminal.
Numbers | Math
Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary
Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.
Biology | Neuroscience
Are There Bacteria in Your Brain?
A surprising new result catches the attention of the neuroscience community.
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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