Matter | Physics
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Chapter one
Seeking
Biology | Neuroscience
The Most Dangerous Muse
Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting
How fMRI has become an ethical obligation.
Chapter two
Hidden
Biology | Health
A Cardiologist’s 9/11 Story
From trauma to arrhythmia, and back again.
Matter | Earth Science
Los Angeles Should Be Buried
A day in the war between the city and its mountains.
Culture | Science Practice
Geology Makes You Time-Literate
A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness.
Chapter three
Unnoticed
Matter | Physics
Fine Tuning Is Just Fine
Why it’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics.
Culture | Anthropology
Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions
What we don’t tell our children.
Matter | Physics
Is It Time to Get Rid of Time?
The crisis inside the physics of time.
Chapter four
Finding
Ideas | Health
How Doctors Use Poetry
A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal.
Biology | Archaeology
The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies
Why do so many corpses found in Europe’s peat bogs show signs of violent death?
Matter | Physics
The Fourth Copernican Revolution
Is our universe one island in an archipelago?
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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A Short History of the Missing Universe
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Why Did the Ancients Bury Their Dogs like Family Members?
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The Heart of Musical Experience Is Expectation
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