Culture | Technology
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Chapter one
Rethink
Culture | Sociology
Retiring Retirement
A growing portion of the elderly look and act anything but.
Numbers | Artificial Intelligence
Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
We’ll need both deep learning and symbol manipulation to build AI.
Chapter two
Reconfigure
Numbers | Math
Does Scrabble Need To Be Fixed?
An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck.
Culture | Sociology
Your City Has a Gender and It’s Male
Why city designers are increasingly thinking about the female perspective.
Culture | Psychology
Holding Hands with a Chimp
How my suburban-hewn world-view was flipped on its head.
Chapter three
Redo
Biology | Health
Iron Is the New Cholesterol
Elevated iron is at the center of a web of disease stretching from cancer to diabetes.
Numbers | Math
How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke
Andrew Wiles thought he had a solution to an age-old puzzle. Until it began to unravel.
Culture | Paleontology
Why We Love Dinosaurs
If museums of natural history are temples to science, dinosaurs are their shrines.
Chapter four
Recall
Ideas | Technology
Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls
The big-data makeover of humanity could be a recipe for disaster.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.
Biology | Microbiology
What Defines a Stem Cell?
Our cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than anyone expected.
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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The Case Against Geniuses
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Biology
Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory
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Biology
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
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