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Chapter one
Outlook
Biology | Environment
Welcome Back, Animals!
It’s time to consider how we can have more animals in our daily lives in the city.
Culture | Sociology
A Vision of Our Post-Lockdown Future
China’s health codes allow people to resume their lives with confidence. At what cost?
Chapter two
Intersection
Biology | Animals
Evolution Is the Greatest Show on Earth
These videos are a gateway drug to science.
Biology | Health
Young and Healthy and Waiting to Get Cancer
The hardest part of living with the BRCA1 gene.
Culture | Sociology
No Country for Old People
The COVID-19 death rate in Sweden has exposed worldwide bias against the elderly.
Biology | Neuroscience
Mice on Acid
To get a legal hallucinogen to market, rodents need to take the first trip.
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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Numbers
Let Game Theory Tell You When It’s Time to Go Shopping
Now is not the time to go to the grocery store, to restock the pantry, to get fresh milk and eggs. Yet I need to replenish my food supplies. Well then, I should go. Wait, is everyone…
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Ideas
How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool. All of those…
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Biology
Why We Love to Be Grossed Out
Nina Strohminger, perhaps not unlike many fans of raunchy comedies and horror flicks, is drawn to disgust. The University of Pennsylvania psychologist has written extensively on the feeling…
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Ideas
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
Belief is a special kind of human power. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, eloquently claims as much in his recent book Why We Believe: Evolution and the…
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