Matter | Astronomy
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Chapter one
Inescapable
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
Meet Xiaoice. She’s empathic, caring, and always available—just not human.
Ideas | Psychology
Why We Swim in Quarries
The powerful allure of the deep azure.
Culture | Psychology
Our Conflicted Feelings For R2-D2
Lucas’ droids are halfway between human and inhuman, so we can both love and ignore them.
Biology | Neuroscience
Love Is Like Cocaine
From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.
Chapter two
First Love
Culture | Sociology
She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not
The science of waiting in modern courtship.
Biology | Animals
What Pigeons Teach Us About Love
The sweet, avian romance of Harold and Maude.
Biology | Animals
This Valentine’s Day, Go Public or Go Home
Ken Kraaijeveld unveils ancient secrets of seduction from the animal kingdom.
Matter | Physics
Describing People as Particles Isn’t Always a Bad Idea
Using physics to describe social phenomena can work—if it’s the right physics.
Chapter three
I Melt
Biology | Neuroscience
Nothing Snowballs Online Like Fear
How online fear feeds political smear campaigns, stock market rumors, and ISIS propaganda.
Matter | Climate
Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong
A geologist explains that climate change is not just about a global average sea rise.
Biology | Paleontology
It’s a Fishapod!
The story behind the discovery of the four-legged fish.
Matter | Climate
Secrets in the Ice
Love notes and warning messages are buried in Earth’s frozen archive.
Biology | Food
The Neuroscience of Wine
Why our minds can be led astray about the tastes of wines.
Biology | Climate
How Climate Change Could Starve the Monkeys
My sister the scientist makes a startling discovery in an Ugandan jungle.
Chapter four
The Search
Biology | Psychology
Am I Ugly?
What science says about my outer beauty.
Ideas | Education
Spark of Science: Childhood Discovery
Kirk Johnson’s mom gave him 5 minutes at a rest stop. It was enough to find an arrowhead.
Ideas | Paleontology
Ingenious: Kirk Johnson
The director of the National Museum of Natural History on how we get into science.
Culture | Psychology
How to Learn to Love to Practice
Is there a secret to staying in the zone?
Culture | Psychology
Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know
We seek novelty, but not too much.
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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