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Chapter one
Building Homes
Bacteria Love Lasered Jell-O
How artificial homes for pathogens may lead to better medicine.
What Virtual Reality Teaches Us About Home
We don’t like cookie-cutter suburbs, but we buy there anyway.
Ingenious: Ian Tattersall
The meaning of home in human evolution.
In Search of the First Human Home
When did the savanna give way to the crash pad?
The Harshest Return
Living in Antarctica is hard; coming home can be harder.
Chapter two
Birth and Death
The Madness of the Planets
Our home in the universe continues to rock out of control.
Our Prodigal Sun
Searching the heavens for our sun’s family.
The Periodic Stranger
When exile becomes home.
Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made
A reflection on Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man.”
Cancer, the Consummate Traveler
Disrupting cancer’s diaspora may lead to new therapies.
Chapter three
Without Borders
At Home in the Liminal World
Living in transition, between cultures, we are discovering who we are.
Beer Domesticated Man
Early man chose pints over pastry. Wouldn’t you?
Have Money, Won’t Travel
Why do investors prefer to put their money to work at home?
Speak, Butterfly
Butterflies tied together Vladimir Nabokov’s home, science, and writing.
Emotional Renovations
How your brain twists together emotion and place.
Chapter four
Into the Wild
A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
It matters only that we think, not how we think.
Saving Suburbia
Shouldn’t neighborhoods be as diverse as the swamps and forests that surround them?
The Racehorse on the Runway
The hybrid ecologies of Frankfurt Airport show us how homes and borders intersect.
In Science Fiction, We Are Never Home
Where technology leads to exile and yearning.
The Termite and the Architect
Animal homes resist our understanding.
Chapter five
Best of 2013
Best of 2013: Where Uniqueness Lies
The ultimate treasure hunt for the key in our brains that unlocks our difference.
Best of 2013: Why It’s Good To Be Wrong
Nothing obstructs access to the truth like a belief in absolute truthfulness.
Best of 2013: Unhappy Truckers & Other Algorithmic Problems
Transportation optimization starts with math, but ends in understanding human behavior.
Best of 2013: The Man Who Invented Modern Probability
Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.
Best of 2013: The Hannah Montana Hypothesis
Does the Fame Virus plague our youth, and is multimedia to blame?
Best of 2013: Beyond the Horizon of the Universe
Want to see evidence of other universes? Just look up.
Best of 2013: Ingenious: Peter Ward
Call the daring marine biologist and paleontologist “Professor Nautilus.”
Best of 2013: How to Waste Time Properly
The right distractions can boost creativity.
Best of 2013: The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave
Our picture of man’s early home has been skewed by modern preconceptions.
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