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Chapter one
Gray Matter
Biology | Neuroscience
Your Brain in Love
Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is.
Culture | Psychology
The Brave New World of Chemical Romance
How love drugs will shape the future of our relationships.
Chapter two
Family Matters
Biology | Evolution
The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate
Calculating the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens.
Biology | Animals
Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life
Why eels are one strange fish.
Culture | History
The Last Love of Jonas Salk
The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.
Chapter three
Matters of the Heart
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
The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone
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Ideas
You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends!
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Biology
How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
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Matter
Do We Need a Theory of Everything?
I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory or Eric Weinstein’s geometric unity or Stephen Wolfram’s…
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