Biology | Evolution
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Chapter one
Innovators
Culture | Fiction
The Hit Book That Came From Mars
The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.
Numbers | History
The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven
A Renaissance alchemist pioneers feedback control.
Matter | Chemistry
Teen MacGyver Invents Battery to Save the Planet
14-year-old creates eco-battery with aluminum foil, old guitar strings, and club soda.
Biology | Neuroscience
Brain Damage Saved His Music
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
Chapter two
Inspiration
Biology | Neuroscience
The Most Dangerous Muse
Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity.
Biology | Psychology
To Be More Creative, Cheer Up
The way to tap your inner Hemingway is not how you think.
Ideas | Philosophy
Why It’s Good To Be Wrong
Nothing obstructs access to the truth like a belief in absolute truthfulness.
Culture | Fiction
Rent Arlington Hall’s Brain
The implant would make him a brilliant pianist for 24 hours.
Chapter three
Robots
Ideas | Artificial Intelligence
Robots Can’t Dance
Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated.
Biology | Psychology
Why You Keep Dreaming About Being Naked
Are the common elements in our dreams the result of basic biology, or something deeper?
Ideas | Artificial Intelligence
Ingenious: Ken Goldberg
Creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home
It matters only that we think, not how we think.
Chapter four
In Your Head
Culture | Music
The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations
That song stuck in your head is your brain doing its work.
Culture | Mortality
How the Obits Became My Muse
The unusual lives of a physicist and an aviator, in verse and song.
Biology | Neuroscience
Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is?
Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee takes us into the neurology of creativity.
Numbers | Neuroscience
Safecracking the Brain
What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves.
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