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Chapter one
Belief
Time Is Contagious
How to control the subjective experience of time.
Why You Didn’t See It Coming
When scale confounds our perceptions, stories can clarify them.
What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments
Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.
Chapter two
Health
Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?
Some psychologists believe suicide and depression can be strategic.
Bias in the ER
Doctors suffer from the same cognitive distortions as the rest of us.
Love Is Like Cocaine
From ecstasy to withdrawal, the lover resembles an addict.
Raising the American Weakling
There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.
Chapter three
Personality
The Anatomy of Charisma
What makes a person magnetic and why we should be wary.
Atheism, the Computer Model
Big data meets history to forecast the rise and fall of religion.
When Climate Change Starts Wars
Rising temperatures are bringing ethnic tensions to a boil in Central Asia.
The Man Who Played with Absolute Power
A chat with the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
How Single Women Are Changing Society
Thinking out of the nuclear family box.
Chapter four
Unreal
This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics
Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.
Ingenious: Carl Erik Fisher
The meditative psychiatrist.
Why the Dark Side of the Force Had to Be Dark
The innate meanings of color and intensity.
Why These Researchers Are Drawn to the World’s Edge
The joy and toll of doing remote science.
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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