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Chapter one
Limits
Ideas | Physics
How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?
These are the few limits on our ability to know.
Ideas | Physics
The Bridge From Nowhere
How is it possible to get something from nothing?
Culture | Art
The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver
Early medical models of human anatomy shrouded death in feminine beauty.
Chapter two
School Days
Culture | Psychology
Why We Love How-to Videos
Instructional videos can teach us anything—especially if you watch them this way.
Culture | Education
Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths
Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does.
Numbers | Education
Teaching Me Softly
Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching.
Ideas | Philosophy
Why Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics
Meet the philosopher who revived anti-realism.
Chapter three
Self Knowledge
Culture | Psychology
How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Culture | Psychology
A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
Culture | Psychology
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
Biology | Neuroscience
Addicted to Anticipation
What goes wrong in the brain chemistry of a gambling addict.
Chapter four
Field Trip
Biology | Health
Hallucinogen Therapy Is Coming
How shrooms can spring people from fears and destructive habits.
Biology | Animals
Fish Can Be Smarter Than Primates
To understand the plurality of intelligence, look under water.
Culture | Psychology
For Kids, Learning Is Moving
Children’s brain development is fueled when they find their own way.
Biology | Neuroscience
Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
The neocortex is argued to be the seat of cognition, but crows don't have one.
Biology | Environment
The Harsh, Hidden Lessons of Tree School
Tree education is full of tearing and screaming.
Chapter five
Time Travel
Ideas | Physics
A Nonlinear History of Time Travel
Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.
Biology | Archaeology
The Modern Mind May Be 100,000 Years Old
New fossil evidence shows sophisticated thought began earlier than we thought.
Numbers | Technology
Ingenious: Richard K. Miller
Engineering education.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Genius of Learning
MacArthur Fellow Danielle Bassett says learning works best when you don’t overthink it.
Culture | Health
Alzheimer’s Early Tell
The language of authors who suffered from dementia has a story for the rest of us.
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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