Matter | Environment
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Chapter one
Take the Trash Out
Numbers | Technology
Lavatory Laboratory
How sanitation is following the cell phone model.
Culture | Transportation
Did Cars Save Our Cities From Horses?
Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.
Culture | Health
Blissed-Out Fish on Prozac
Why we can’t get our water supply free of drugs.
Biology | Environment
When Waste Becomes Home
Sea life settles on plastic.
Chapter two
Make the Most of It
Biology | Paleontology
Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung
“Paleoscatologist” Karen Chin has uncovered the humble origin of life after dinosaurs.
Numbers | Cryptography
The Cost of Cryptography
Computer security is trying to avoid wasting your time.
Biology | Evolution
Evolution in a Finite World
Why is sexual reproduction so common in nature?
Numbers
Ingenious: Sean Rice
The evolutionary perspective.
Biology | Health
What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?
Meet the mice that are changing the obesity conversation.
Ideas | Philosophy
Capturing the “Ruin Porn” of Berlin
Layers of history beckon with imperfect memories.
Culture | Psychology
How To Waste Time Properly
The right distractions can boost creativity.
Chapter three
Reclamation
Biology | Information Theory
Nature, the IT Wizard
Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency.
Matter | Physics
Infinite Garbage Can
Can information ever be rescued from inside a black hole?
Numbers | Computer Science
Facebook Cools Off
Supercomputer centers slash excess electricity as smaller ones try to follow.
Biology | Health
Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters
From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash.
Matter | Technology
Our Nuclear Waste Is a Goldmine
Technology for generating power from spent uranium hits policy barriers.
Matter | Automobiles
The Combustion Engine Refuses to Die
Internal combustion is surviving by adapting.
Chapter four
The Winter 2014 Quarterly
Ideas
Curl Up With Nautilus
The Winter 2014 Quarterly has landed.
Ideas | Art
Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made
A reflection on Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man.”
Ideas | Aeronautics
Up, Up, and Away With Science
Richard Holmes gets high on ballooning.
Biology | Psychology
The Science of Gratitude
New research suggests saying thanks regularly can benefit your health.
Matter | Technology
Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis
Is a third-act twist to nuclear energy at hand?
Culture | Fiction
Kellogg’s
The last wholesome fantasy of the middle-school boy.
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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