Biology | Evolution
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Chapter one
Risk
Biology | Insects
Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
A researcher who works through painting tells her story.
Biology | Neuroscience
Learning Chess at 40
What I learned trying to keep up with my 4-year-old daughter at the royal game.
Chapter two
Trouble
Culture | Technology
WeChat Is Watching
Living in China with the app that knows everything about me.
Culture | Sociology
Let’s Play War
Could war games replace the real thing?
Culture | Sociology
Why We Keep Playing the Lottery
Blind to the mathematical odds, we fall to the marketing gods.
Chapter three
Scrabble
Matter | Physics
The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science
What a 16th-century scientist can tell us about the fate of a physicist like David Bohm.
Numbers | Math
Presenting the Scrabble Luck Calculator
Are you as good at Scrabble as you think?
Biology | Psychology
To Be More Creative, Cheer Up
The way to tap your inner Hemingway is not how you think.
Matter | Astronomy
When We Were the Cosmos
The director of the Griffith Observatory revisits the dawn of astronomy.
Chapter four
Bridge
Culture | Psychology
Playing Video Games Makes Us Fully Human
No other media meets our emotional and social needs like electronic games.
Culture | Psychology
The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain
Why we get off on the game—and are better off for it.
Culture | Sociology
Why We Need Court Jesters in Space
Behavioral scientists explain why Mars missions need humor.
Chapter five
Monopoly
Biology | Insects
We Need Insects More Than They Need Us
Inside the world of plastic-eating worms, dung-rolling beetles, and agricultural ants..
Biology | Health
Raising the American Weakling
There are two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength.
Culture | Psychology
Why We’re Patriotic
Whether it’s our country or our football team, we need to belong.
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“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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