Culture | Psychology
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Chapter one
The Way We Are
Matter | Physics
The Data That Threatened to Break Physics
What does a rational scientist do with an impossible result?
Matter | Physics
The Admiral of the String Theory Wars
After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.
Biology | Linguistics
The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus
The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.
Numbers | Math
In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used To Be
Computers can’t invent, but they’re changing the field anyway.
Chapter two
Common Wisdom
Matter | Earth Science
The Sinkhole Hunters
In sprawling Florida, one group of geologists is never short on business.
Biology | Science Practice
The Trouble With Scientists
How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.
Culture | Archaeology
Our Neanderthal Complex
What if our ancient relatives did “human” better?
Biology | Physiology
Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body
From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions.
Biology | Health
How to Unlearn a Disease
Medicine’s latest cure is forgetting you’re sick.
Chapter three
Take It Back
Ideas | Science Practice
How the Biggest Fabricator in Science Got Caught
Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed him.
Ideas | Architecture
Why We Should Let the Pantheon Crack
Modern architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients.
Ideas | Archaeology
The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave
Our picture of man’s early home has been skewed by modern preconceptions.
Biology | Animals
How Necking Shaped the Giraffe
The private life of the African giant offers a remarkable view on evolution.
Chapter four
What You Want to See
Ideas | Philosophy
Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
How Julian Jaynes’ famous 1970s theory is faring in the neuroscience age.
Biology | Microbiology
Infected Monkeys and Other Cautionary Tales From the Biolab
No matter how safe the lab is, humans working with deadly bioagents can make errors.
Ideas | Architecture
Ingenious: John Ochsendorf
Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.
Biology | Psychology
Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon
How the moon stirs tension between your conscious and subconscious minds.
Numbers | Math
How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke
Andrew Wiles thought he had a solution to an age-old puzzle. Until it began to unravel.
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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Matter
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