Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
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Chapter one
On the Record
Biology | Genetics
Your DNA Is Nothing Special
It’s time to relax about genetic testing.
Matter | Climate
Secrets in the Ice
Love notes and warning messages are buried in Earth’s frozen archive.
Numbers | Health
For Preventing Disease, Data Are the New Drugs
Is giving up your biological secrets too bitter a pill?
Culture | Sociology
How ISIS Broke My Questionnaire
I felt the impact of an attack by the terrorist group. So why didn’t my research data?
Chapter two
Reboot
Numbers | The Web
The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old
In the debate between structure and openness, 19th-century ideas are making a comeback.
Numbers | Music
How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music
I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.
Numbers | Computer Science
Moore’s Law Is About to Get Weird
Never mind tablet computers. Wait till you see bubbles and slime mold.
Ideas | Computer Science
Third Data Server From the Sun
The Earth is becoming a computer visible across galactic distance.
Chapter three
Atom & Eve
Matter | Physics
Nostalgia Just Became a Law of Nature
New theories have mixed perception and knowledge into the hardest of sciences.
Matter | Physics
Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?
Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.
Numbers | Computer Science
Ingenious: Scott Aaronson
From computational complexity to quantum mechanics.
Matter | Physics
The Quantum Mechanics of Fate
How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.
Chapter four
Good to Know
Biology | Health
Did Grief Give Him Parkinson’s?
These identical twins led virtually identical lives—with one tragic exception.
Numbers | Economics
Yes, You’re Irrational, and Yes, That’s OK
The insight that will save you from being manipulated.
Matter | Astronomy
Mario Livio on 25 Years of Hubble
The astrophysicist looks at the history of the world’s most famous telescope.
Biology | History
The Seeds That Sowed a Revolution
Galapagos Finches are famous, yet Darwin learned more about evolution from the plants.
Biology | Genetics
The Thrill of Defeat
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped.
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