This will make you smarter

Foreword / David Brooks

Preface / John Brockman

"Deep Time" and the Far Future / Martin Rees

We Are Unique / Marcelo Gleiser

The Mediocrity Principle / P.Z. Myers

The Pointless Universe / Sean Carroll

The Copernican Principle / Samuel Arbesman

We Are Not Alone in the Universe / J. Craig Venter

Microbes Run the World / Stewart Brand

The Double-Blind Control Experiment / Richard Dawkins

Promoting a Scientific Lifestyle / Max Tegmark

Experimentation / Roger Schank

The Controlled Experiment / Timo Hannay

Gedankenexperiment / Gino Segre

The Pessimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Science / Kathryn Schulz

Each of Us Is Ordinary, Yet One of a Kind / Samuel Barondes

Nexus Causality, Moral Warfare, and Misattribution Arbitrage / John Tooby

Self-Serving Bias / David G. Myers

Cognitive Humility / Gary Marcus

Technologies Have Biases / Douglas Rushkoff

Bias Is the Nose for the Story / Gerald Smallberg

Control Your Spotlight / Jonah Lehrer

The Focusing Illusion / Daniel Kahneman

The Uselessness of Certainty / Carlo Rovelli

Uncertainty / Lawrence Krauss

A Sense of Proportion About Fear of the Unknown / Aubrey De Grey

Because / Nigel Goldenfeld

The Name Game / Stuart Firestein

Living Is Fatal / Seth Lloyd

Uncalculated Risk / Garrett Lisi

Truth Is a Model / Neil Gershenfeld

E Pluribus Unum / Jon Kleinberg

A Proxemics of Urban Sexuality / Stefano Boeri

Failure Liberates Success / Kevin Kelly

Holism / Nicholas A. Christakis

Tanstaafl / Robert R. Provine

Skeptical Empiricism / Gerald Holton

Open Systems / Thomas A. Bass

Non-Inherent Inheritance / George Church

Shifting Baseline Syndrome / Paul Kedrosky

Perma / Martin Seligman

Positive-Sum Games / Steven Pinker

The Snuggle for Existence / Roger Highfield

The Law of Comparative Advantage / Dylan Evans

Structured Serendipity / Jason Zweig

The World Is Unpredictable / Rudy Rucker

Randomness / Charles Seife

The Kaleidoscopic Discovery Engine / Clifford Pickover

Inference to the Best Explanation / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Pragmamorphism / Emanuel Derman

Cognitive Load / Nicholas Carr

To Curate / Hans Ulrich Obrist

"Graceful" SHAs / Richard Nisbett

Externalities / Rob Kurzban

Everything Is in Motion / James O'Donnell

Subselves and the Modular Mind / Douglas T. Kenrick

Predictive Coding / Andy Clark

Our Sensory Desktop / Donald Hoffman

The Senses and the Multisensory / Barry C. Smith

The Umwelt / David Eagleman

The Rational Unconscious / Alison Gopnik

We Are Blind to Much That Shapes Our Mental Life / Adam Alter

An Instinct to Learn / W. Tecumseh Fitch

Think Bottom Up, Not Top Down / Michael Shermer

Fixed-Action Patterns / Irene Pepperberg

Powers of 10 / Terrence Sejnowski

Life Code / Juan Enriquez

Constraint Satisfaction / Stephen M. Kosslyn

Cycles / Daniel C. Dennett

Keystone Consumers / Jennifer Jacquet

Cumulative Error / Jaron Lanier

Cultural Attractors / Dan Sperber

Scale Analysis / Giulio Boccaletti

Hidden Layers / Frank Wilczek

"Science" / Lisa Randall

The Expanding In-Group / Marcel Kinsbourne

Contingent Superorganisms / Jonathan Haidt

The Pareto Principle / Clay Shirky

Find That Frame / William Calvin

Wicked Problems / Jay Rosen

Anthropocene Thinking / Daniel Goleman

Homo dilatus / Alun Anderson

We Are Lost in Thought / Sam Harris

The Phenomenally Transparent Self-Model / Thomas Metzinger

Correlation Is Not a Cause / Sue Blackmore

Information Flow / David Dalrymple

Thinking in Time Versus Thinking Outside of Time / Lee Smolin

Negative Capability Is a Profound Therapy / Richard Foreman

Depth / Tor Nørretranders

Temperament Dimensions / Helen Fisher

The Personality/Insanity Continuum / Geoffrey Miller

Arise / Joel Gold

Systemic Equilibrium / Matthew Ritchie

Projective Thinking / Linda Stone

Anomalies and Paradigms / V.S. Ramachandran

Recursive Structure / David Gelernter

Designing Your Mind / Don Tapscott

Free Jazz / Andrian Kreye

Collective Intelligence / Matt Ridley

Risk Literacy / Gerd Gigerenzer

Science Versus Theater / Ross Anderson

The Base Rate / Keith Devlin

Findex / Marti Hearst

An Assertion Is Often an Empirical Question, Settled by Collecting Evidence / Susan Fiske

Scientists Should Be Scientists / Gregory Paul

Bricoleur / James Croak

Science's Methods Aren't Just for Science / Mark Henderson

The Game of Life

and Looking for Generators / Nick Bostrom

Anecdotalism / Robert Sapolsky

You Can Show That Something Is Definitely Dangerous but Not That It's Definitely Safe / Tom Standage

Absence and Evidence / Christine Finn

Path Dependence / John McWhorter

Interbeing / Scott D. Sampson

The Other / Dimitar Sasselov

Ecology / Brian Eno

Dualities / Stephon H. Alexander

Dualities / Amanda Gefter

The Paradox / Anthony Aguirre

Hunting for Root Cause: The Human "Black Box" / Eric Topol

Personal Data Mining / David Rowan

Parallelism in Art and Commerce / Satyajit Das

Innovation / Laurence C. Smith

The Gibbs Landscape / Kevin Hand

Black Swan Technologies / Vinod Khosla

Kakonomics / Gloria Origgi

Kayfabe / Eric Weinstein

Einstein's Blade in Ockham's Razor / Kai Krause

Heat-Seeking Missiles / Dave Winer

Entanglement / Marco Iacoboni

Technology Paved the Way for Humanity / Timothy Taylor

Time Span of Discretion / Paul Saffo

Defeasibility / Tania Lombrozo

Aether / Richard Thaler

Knowledge as a Hypothesis / Mark Pagel

The Einstellung Effect / Evgeny Morozov

Homo sensus sapiens: The Animal That Feels and Reasons / Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran

Understanding Confabulation / Fiery Cushman

Sexual Selection / David M. Buss

QED Moments / Bart Kosko

Objects of Understanding and Communication / Richard Saul Wurman

Life as a Side Effect / Carl Zimmer

The Veeck Effect / Gregory Cochran

Supervenience! / Joshua Greene

The Culture Cycle / Hazel Rose Markus / Alana Conner

Phase Transitions and Scale Transitions / Victoria Stodden

Replicability / Brian Knutson

Ambient Memory and the Myth of Neutral Observation / Xeni Jardin

A Statistically Significant Difference in Understanding the Scientific Process / Diane F. Halpern

The Dece(i)bo Effect / Beatrice Golomb

Anthropophilia / Andrew Revkin

A Solution for Collapsed Thinking: Signal Detection Theory / Mahzarin R. Banaji

Everyday Apophenia / David Pizarro

A Cognitive Toolkit Full of Garbage / Ernst Poppel