Culture | Psychology
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Chapter one
Anxiety
Biology | Health
Pandemics Are the Dark Side of Global Mobility
How the 2009 swine flu raced around the world.
Biology | Health
How COVID-19 Picks on the Weakened
The wrath of the coronavirus.
Chapter two
Testing
Culture | Science Practice
Why False Claims About COVID-19 Refuse to Die
Tracking the information zombie apocalypse.
Culture | Psychology
How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters
You get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Biology | Health
Can a Battery of New COVID Tests Stem the US Debacle?
Medical testing has been a Pearl Harbor. But the war could be won.
Biology | Health
Summer Won’t Save Us from COVID-19
Why SARS-CoV-2 will threaten us for months to come.
Biology | Environment
The Pandemic Can’t Lock Down Nature
The wilderness offers not just escape but reassurance.
Biology | Psychology
Friendship Is a Lifesaver
Science is showing us the best remedy for aging is friends.
Chapter three
Ecology
Biology | Environment
The Ecological Vision That Will Save Us
To avoid the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with our place in nature.
Culture | Artificial Intelligence
Superintelligent, Amoral, and Out of Control
AI is no longer playing games. Are we prepared?
Numbers | Economics
The Economic Damage Is Barely Conceivable
In America, people who lose jobs don’t necessarily get them back.
Chapter four
Community
Biology | Environment
Guided by Plant Voices
Plants talk to this ecologist. They tell her how to do better science.
Biology | Health
How COVID-19 Will Pass from Pandemic to Prosaic
Past outbreaks show the way to relief, even without a vaccine.
Biology | Psychology
We Aren’t Selfish After All
In turbulent times, people go from “me” thinking to “we” thinking.
Chapter five
Inventive
Numbers | Technology
Don’t Fear the Robot
I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world.
Ideas | Philosophy
What’s Missing in Pandemic Models
Philosophy is needed to put the science of COVID-19 in perspective.
Culture | Science Practice
How Science Trumps Denial
Scientists putting their career and health on the line can take heart from Galileo.
Chapter six
Connect
Numbers | Math
Why COVID-19 Flare-Ups Will Keep Happening
Like earthquakes and forest fires, outbreaks have a “heavy tail” of large events.
Culture | History
The Carouser and the Great Astronomer
It’s a fine line between oblivion and immortality.
Culture | Sociology
A Window on Africa’s Resilience
Amid one disaster after another, Mozambique rebuilds.
Biology | Environment
The Hidden Life of Viruses
The COVID-19 crisis has made the dark energy of evolution visible.
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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