Culture | Sociology
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Chapter one
Slow Living
Ideas | Psychology
Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes
The high speed of society has jammed your internal clock.
Biology | Chemistry
How to Turn Your Dog Off
Suspended animation is becoming a life-saving medical procedure.
Culture | Music
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
A composer details how music works its magic on our brains.
Chapter two
Slow Matter
Biology | Insects
The Philosopher King of the Hoverflies
A roving meditation on nature, literature, and the joy of collecting flies.
Culture | Insects
The Fly King Speaks
Meet Fredrik Sjöberg, author of the sleeper hit, The Fly Trap.
Matter | Earth Science
Los Angeles Should Be Buried
A day in the war between the city and its mountains.
Culture | Chemistry
Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either
Anxious distillers are trying to make bourbon old before its time.
Matter | Physics
Before There Were Stars
The unlikely heroes that made starlight possible.
Matter | Physics
How To Clock a Glacier
Portable slow-light technology could measure the speed of glaciers in real time.
Chapter three
The Old
Biology | Reproduction
Why Egg Freezing Is an Impossible Choice
I don’t want to surrender to a lottery. But will I regret not playing?
Biology | Evolution
The Rise and Fall of the Living Fossil
The idea that some species are relics that have stopped evolving is finally going extinct.
Matter | Earth Science
The Secret History of the Supernova at the Bottom of the Sea
How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.
Ideas | Mortality
The Gravekeeper’s Paradox
People want permanent tombstones that also show decay.
Ideas | Cognitive Science
Trying Not to Try
Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us similar stories about how we think.
Ideas | Health
What a 9,000-Year-Old Spruce Tree Taught Me
How photographing the world’s oldest living things pushed me outside the boundaries of science.
Chapter four
Frontiers
Biology | Physiology
The Impossible Physiology of the Free Diver
The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body.
Matter | Astronomy
Jupiter Is a Garden of Storms
Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die.
Culture | Art
A Photographer Who Tinkers with Time
How Adam Magyar slows down in the most impatient places.
Culture | Sociology
Ingenious: Helen Fisher
Talking sex, brains, and commitment with the best-selling scientist of love.
Matter | Astronomy
The 315-Year-Old Science Experiment
How counting sunspots unites the past and future of science.
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