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Chapter one
Self Improvement
Culture | Neuroscience
Caitlyn Jenner and Our Cognitive Dissonance
While biology shows us gender can be fluid, our brains struggle to see it that way.
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them
Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve.
Culture | Anthropology
An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene
Kim Stanley Robinson imagines our future.
Ideas | Philosophy
The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
Why ethical objections to interfering with nature are too late.
Chapter two
More of the Same
Culture | Psychology
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace.
Culture | Fiction
Warm Fuzzies
If you could bring a loved one back from the dead, should you?
Ideas | Literature
The Book No One Read
Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention.
Ideas | Astronomy
This Used To Be the Future
A look inside NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Chapter three
All Together Now
Culture | Psychology
What Technology Can’t Change About Happiness
As pills and gadgets proliferate, what matters is still social connection.
Ideas | Environment
Ingenious: Greg Carr
The philanthropist explains his love affair with Mozambique’s once-ravaged national park.
Ideas | Environment
Nature, Pixelated
With our brains plugged into virtual worlds all day, what is real?
Ideas | Environment
How to Restart an Ecosystem
Economics and conservation are converging to resurrect one of the planet’s greatest parks.
Chapter four
Gut Check
Culture | Sociology
Let’s Play War
Could war games replace the real thing?
Ideas | History
Five Veteran Scientists Tell Us What Most Surprised Them
Fifty years ago, who knew we’d learn to clone genes and find water on Mars?
Ideas | Philosophy
An Appetite for Innovation
Harvard’s David Edwards talks to Nautilus about how ideas can change the world.
Culture | Fiction
Know When to Hold ’Em
The world is your casino. But bettors beware—the house always wins.
Biology | Genetics
What If Tinder Showed Your IQ?
A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Genius of Learning
MacArthur Fellow Danielle Bassett says learning works best when you don’t overthink it.
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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Ideas
Has Science Realized This 350-Year-Old Alchemist Wish List?
Robert Boyle, a founding member of the Royal Society, was part of an “invisible college” of natural philosophers and physicians who lived by the motto: “nullius in verba,” or, “nobody’s…
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Numbers
The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World
Over 10 years ago, a digital experiment called Second Life launched, and excitement surged about the idea of interacting in online virtual worlds. Created by Linden Lab, a company founded…
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Ideas
Are Museums the Perfect Climate Change Education Tool?
When Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of the New York and New Jersey coastlines, in October 2012, the looming threat of climate change abruptly became personal for a large portion of the…
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Matter
This Man Was Accused of Trying to Pull Earth Out of Its Orbit
Gregory Laughlin has a funny story: While he was working as a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in the early 2000s, he was accused in the press of trying to shove Earth…
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