The Edge question / John Brockman -- Human progress quantified / Steven Pinker -- Doing more with less / Freeman Dyson -- The "specialness" of humanity / Kurt Gray -- J.M. Bergoglio's 2015 review of global ecology / Stuart Pimm -- Leaking, thinning, sliding ice / Laurence C. Smith -- Glaciers / Robert Trivers -- Our collective blind spot / Jennifer Jacquet -- Three de-carbonizing scientific breakthroughs / Bill Joy -- Juice / James Croak -- A call to action / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- A bridge between the 21st and 22nd century / Koo Jeong-A -- The greatest environmental disaster / Richard Muller -- Technobiophilic cities / Scott Sampson -- LENR could supplant fossil fuels / Carl Page -- Emotions influence environmental well-being / June Gruber -- Global warming redux: a serious challenge to our species / Milford H. Wolpoff -- Blue marble 2.0 / Giulio Boccaletti -- High-tech stone age / Tor Nørretranders -- The dematerialization of consumption / Rory Sutherland -- Science made this possible / Bruce Parker -- The brain is a strange planet / Dustin Yellin -- The abdication of spacetime / Donald D. Hoffman -- The news that wasn't there / Antony Garrett Lisi -- No news is astounding news / Lee Smolin -- One hundred years of failure / Seth Lloyd -- Hope beyond the Higgs Boson / Sarah Demers -- An unexpected, haunting signal / Gerald Holton -- News about how the physical world operates / Leonard Susskind -- Unpublicized implications of Hawking black-hole evaporation / Frank Tipler -- The energy of nothing / Andrei Linde -- The big bang cannot be what we thought it was / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Anomalies / Stephon H. Alexander -- Looking where the light isn't / Brian G. Keating -- Simplicity / Neil Turok --
A science of the consequences / Luca De Biase -- Creation of a "no ethnic majority" society / David Berreby -- Interconnectedness / Irene Pepperberg -- Early life adversity and collective outcomes / Linda Wilbrecht -- We're still behind / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Neural hacking, handprints, and the empathy deficit / Daniel Goleman -- Send in the drones / Diana Reiss -- That dress / Susan Blackmore -- Anthropic capitalism and the new gimmick economy / Eric R. Weinstein -- The origin of Europeans / Gregory Cochran -- The platinum rule: dense, heavy, but worth it / Hazel Rose Markus -- Adjusting to feathered dinosaurs / John McWhorter -- People are animals / Laura Betzig -- The longevity of news / Diana Deutsch -- Weather prediction has quietly gotten better / Samuel Arbesman -- The word: first as art, then as science / Brian Christian -- The convergence of images and technology / Victoria Wyatt -- The mindful meeting of minds / Christine Finn -- Carpe diem / Ernst Pöppel -- Linking the levels of human variation / Elizabeth Wrigley-Field -- Challenging the value of a university education / Steve Fuller -- The hermeneutic hypercycle / Maximilian Schich -- Rethinking authority with the blockchain crypto enlightenment / Melanie Swan -- Envoi: we may all die horribly / Robert Sapolsky.
Cancer drugs for brain diseases / Todd C. Sacktor -- The most powerful carcinogen may be entropy / George John-- The decline of cancer / A.C. Grayling -- The mating crisis among educated women / David M. Buss -- The most important x...y...z... / Jared Diamond -- The mother of all addictions / Helen Fisher -- The trust metric / John Gottman -- Optogenetics / Christian Keysers -- Nootropic neural news / George Church -- Memory is a labile fabrication / Kate Jeffery -- The continually new you / Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Toddlers can master computers / Alison Gopnik -- The predictive brain / Lisa Feldman Barrett -- A new imaging tool / Alun Anderson -- Sensors: accelerating the pace of scientific discovery / Paul Saffo -- 3D printing in the medical field / Syed Tasnim Raza -- Deep science / Brian Knutson -- A world that counts / Alex (Sandy) Pentland -- Programming reality / Neil Gershenfeld -- Pointing is a prerequisite for language / N.J. Enfield -- Macro-criminal networks / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán -- Virtual reality goes mainstream / Thomas Metzinger -- The twin tides of change / Timo Hannay -- Imaging deep learning / Andy Clark -- The neural net reloaded / Jamshed Bharucha -- Differentiable programming / David Dalrymple -- Deep learning, semantics, and society / Steve Omohundro -- Seeing our cyborg selves / Thomas A. Bass -- The rejection of science itself / Douglas Rushkoff -- Re-thinking artificial intelligence / Rodney A. Brooks -- I, for one / Joshua Bongard -- Data sets over algorithms / Alexander Wissner-Gross -- Biological methods of mental illness reflect essentialist biases / Bruce Hood -- Neuroprediction / Abigail Marsh -- The thin line between mental illness and mental health / Joel Gold -- Theodiversity / Ara Norenzayan -- Modernity is winning / Gregory Paul -- Religious morality is mostly below the belt / Michael McCullough --
Blinded by data / Gary Klein -- The epistemic trainwreck of soft-side psychology / Philip Tetlock -- Science itself / Paul Bloom -- a compelling explanation for scientific misconduct / Leo M. Chalupa -- Sub-prime science / Nicholas Humphrey -- The infancy of meta-science / Jonathan Schooler -- The disillusion and the disaffection of poor white Americans / Richard Nisbett -- Inequality of wealth and income: a runaway process / S. Abbas Raza -- The age of visible thought / Peter Gabriel -- Our changing conceptions of what it means to be human / Howard Gardner -- Complete head transplants / Kai Krause -- The en-gendering of genius / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- Diversity in science / Gino Segre -- The democratization of science / Michale Shermer -- News about science news / Sheizaf Rafaeli -- The broadening scope of science / Tania Lombrozo -- Q-bio / Nigel Goldenfeld -- Mathematics and reality / Clifford Pickover -- Synthetic learning / Kevin Kelly -- A genuine science of learning / Keith Devlin -- Bayesian program learning / John C. Mather -- FSM (feces-standard money) / Jaeweon Cho -- The ironies of higher arithmetic / Jim Holt -- Broke people ignoring $20 bills on the sidewalk / Michael Vassar -- We fear the wrong things / David G. Myers -- Living in terror of terrorism / Gerd Gigerenzer -- The state of the world isn't as bad as you think / Steven R. Quartz -- The healthy diet u-turn / Ed Regis -- Fatty foods are good for your health / Peter Turchin -- Partisan hostility / Jonathan Haidt -- Cognitive science transforms moral philosophy / Stephen P. Stich -- Morality is made of meat / Oliver Scott Curry -- People kill because it's the right thing to do / James J. O'Donnell -- Interdisciplinary social research / Ziyad Marar -- Intellectual convergence / Adam Alter -- Weapons technology powered human evolution / Timothy Taylor -- The immune system: a grand unifying theory for biomedical research / Buddhini Samarasinghe -- Harnessing our natural defenses against cancer / Michael E. Hochberg --
Human chimeras / David Haig -- The race between genetic meltdown and germline engineering / John Tooby -- The ongoing battles with pathogens / Robert Kurzban -- Antibiotics are dead; long live antibiotics! / Aubrey De Grey -- The 6 billion letters of our genome / Eric Topol, M.D. -- Systems medicine / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Growing a brain in a dish / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Self-driving genes are coming / Stewart Brand -- Life diverging / Juan Enriquez -- Fundamentally newsworthy / Stuart Firestein -- Paleo-DNA and de-extinction / W. Tecumseh Fitch -- The wisdom race is heating up / Max Tegmark -- Tabby's star / Yuri Milner -- Extraterrestrials don't land on Earth! / David Christian -- We are not unique, but we are very much alone / Andrian Kreye -- Breakthrough listen / Martin J. Rees -- Life in the Milky Way / Mario Livio -- There is (already) life on Mars / Michael I. Norton -- The breathtaking future of a connected world / Chris J. Anderson -- Everything is computation / Joscha Bach -- Identifying the principles, perhaps the laws, of intelligence / Pamela McCorduck -- Neuro-news / Noga Arikha -- Microbial attractions / Pamela Rosenkranz -- The epidemic of absence / Matt Ridley -- Bugs R Us / Nina Jablonski -- Fecal microbiota transplants / Joichi Ito -- Hi, guys / Alan Alda -- The anti-democratic trend / Dirk Helbing -- The age of awareness / Quentin Hardy -- A large-scale personality research method / Nathalie Nahai -- The conquest of human scale / Charles Seife -- Big data and better government / Margaret Levi -- This is the science-news essay you want to read / Marti Hearst -- Those annoying ads? The harbinger of good things to come / Roger Schank -- Biology versus choice / Thalia Wheatley -- How to be bad together / Gloria Origgi -- Psychology's crisis / Ellen Winner -- The truthiness of scientific research / Judith Rich Harris --
The LHC is working at full energy / Gordon Kane -- New probes of Einstein's curved spacetime--and beyond / Steve Giddings -- Supermassive black holes / Jeremy Bernstein -- Gigantic black holes at the center of galaxies / Carlo Rovelli -- The universe is infinite / Rudy Rucker -- Advance LIGO and advanced Virgo / Paul Davies -- The news is not the news / Frank Wilczek -- We know all the particles and forces we're made of / Sean Carroll -- Computational complexity and the nature of reality / Amanda Gefter -- Einstein was wrong / Hans Halvorson -- Replacing magic with mechanism? / Ross Anderson -- Quantum entanglement is independent of space and time / Anton Zeilinger -- Breakthroughs become part of the culture / Lisa Randall -- Space exploration, new and old / Robert Provine -- Pluto is a bump in the road / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Pluto now, then on to 550 AU / Gregory Benford -- The universe surprised us, close to home / Lawrence M. Krauss -- Progress in rocketry / George Dyson -- The space age takes off...and returns to Earth again / Peter Schwartz -- How widely should we draw the circle? / Scott Aaronson -- A new algorithm showing what computers can and cannot do / John Naughton -- Designer humans / Mark Pagel -- Cellular alchemy / Roger Highfield -- A terrible beauty has been born / Randolph Nesse -- DNA programming / Paul Dolan --
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