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Chapter one
A Thousand Words


The Scientific Problem That Must Be Experienced
To understand turbulence we need the intuitive perspective of art.

How To Price a Forest, and Other Economics Problems
A Cambridge economist discusses wealth, health, and disaster.
Chapter two
Body Works

Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos
Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing.

Can You Die From a Broken Heart?
What happens to our bodies when the bonds of love are breached.

Why the World Cup Suddenly Has So Many Goals
NASA engineer Rabindra Mehta explains the aerodynamics of the World Cup soccer ball.
Chapter three
Survival

Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.

If Trauma Victims Forget, What Is Lost to Society?
A pill to dampen memories stirs hope and worry.

Are You Resilient?
Take this quiz and learn the keys to bouncing back.
Chapter four
Beginnings

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?
There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain.

Ingenious: Robert Sapolsky
The primatologist and neurologist talks turbulence—teens, stress, and the information age.

Is the World Making You Sick?
The chemicals in our everyday lives are, argues immunologist Claudia Miller.

Toad Orgies, Underwater AC, and Other Stories From the Storm
Most creatures flee storms, but some thrive because of them.
Chapter five
Wind & Water

When Good Waves Go Rogue
Even in calm seas, waves can become monsters.

NASA Is Going to Dip This Cup Into the Sun’s Corona
A 2018 mission will send a probe to within 4 million miles of the sun.

Cloudy With a Chance of War
His weather forecasts changed the world. Could his predictions of war?

The Man Who Delayed D-Day
The eminent oceanographer Walter Munk reflects on science and war.

An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene
Kim Stanley Robinson imagines our future.

Do We Have the Big Bang Theory All Wrong?
One physicist’s radical reinterpretation of the cosmic microwave background.

Fish School Us on Wind Power
Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.
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