Culture | Psychology
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Chapter one
Uncertainty
Ideas | Information Theory
The Damage We’re Not Attending To
Scientists who study complex systems offer solutions to the pandemic.
Numbers | Economics
What I Learned from Losing $200 Million
The 2008 financial crisis taught me about the illusion of control, and how to give it up.
Numbers | Information Theory
The Contagion Detective
Adam Kucharski explains how diseases like COVID-19 and misinformation spread.
Chapter two
Adventure
Biology | Archaeology
The Greatest Journey of All Time
How the first Americans made their way from Siberia to Patagonia.
Ideas | Psychology
Horror Fans Have More Fun During a Pandemic
Why shows like “The Walking Dead” might help us cope with the real thing.
Ideas | Astronomy
Mars Is a Second-Rate Backup Plan
On the red planet, existential threats abound.
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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Biology
How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.We consider the brain the very center of who we are and what we do: ruler of our senses, master of our movements; generator…
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Matter
Do We Need a Theory of Everything?
I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory or Eric Weinstein’s geometric unity or Stephen Wolfram’s…
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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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