Culture | Sociology
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Chapter one
Inheritance
Biology | Health
When Stress Comes with Your Mother’s Milk
Stress hormones in breast milk may help prepare us for a turbulent world.
Culture | Psychology
The Original Natural Born Killers
In the 1920s, two murderers were defended by science. The infamous case still echoes.
Biology | Genetics
The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils
A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.
Culture | Psychology
When Destructive Behavior Makes Biological Sense
For people raised in chaos, risk-taking is hardwired.
Chapter two
Sharing
Biology | Health
The Curse That Shoes Can Break
The tragic story of the simple solution to one of the world’s most neglected diseases.
Biology | Neuroscience
What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
An investigative reporter chronicles the progression of his own disease.
Biology | Psychology
You Can “Catch” Stress Through a TV Screen
Couch potatoes beware—characters in distress are hazardous to your health.
Biology | Microbiology
What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner
You may think twice about your diet when you follow the metabolic fate of your food.
Culture | Health
Invisible Patients: A Caregiver’s Story
Dementia takes a toll on caregivers, too.
Chapter three
Extremes
Biology | Neuroscience
A Vaccine for Depression?
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Culture | Health
Why Living in a Poor Neighborhood Can Make You Fat
The sheer stress of an environment contributes to obesity and diabetes.
Culture | Sociology
Stress Gives You Daughters, Sons Make You Liberal
We affect our children’s gender, and it affects us back.
Matter | Astronomy
The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar
Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things.
Chapter four
Breaking Points
Numbers | Economics
What I Learned from Losing $200 Million
The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up.
Matter | Physics
Superconductivity for Siberia
How we broke the world record in high-temperature superconductors.
Matter | Physics
10 Breaking Points
The pressure it takes to break everything from raindrops to stars.
Biology | Psychology
Are You Resilient?
Take this quiz and learn the keys to bouncing back.
Chapter five
Landscapes
Ideas | Climate
The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster
Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty, and a literary masterpiece.
Matter | Earth Science
The Sinkhole Hunters
In sprawling Florida, one group of geologists is never short on business.
Biology | Neuroscience
Ingenious: Rachel Yehuda
What PTSD teaches us about both human frailty and resilience.
Biology | Environment
When Plants Go to War
In the fight against insects, plants have evolved an arsenal of ingenious chemical defenses.
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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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The Oldest, Coldest Mammals May Be Some of the Best Prepared for Climate Change
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Biology
Stress on Simulated Mars Was Not What I Expected
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Ideas
You Have At Least This Many Identities
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