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