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Foreword -- Introduction / Steven Pinker -- Genesis of suicide terrorism / Scott Atran -- The battle for your brain / Ronald Bailey -- Fearing the worst should anyone produce a cloned baby / Philip M. Boffey -- The bittersweet science / Austin Bunn -- The new celebrity / Jennet Conant -- The mythical threat of genetic determinism / Daniel C. Dennett -- We're all gonna die! / Gregg Easterbrook -- Far-out television / Garrett G. Fagan -- A war on obesity, not the obese / Jeffrey M. Friedman -- Desperate measures / Atul Gawande -- The stuff of genes / Horace Freeland Judson -- The bloody crossroads of grammar and politics / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Ask the bird folks / Mike O'Connor -- Where have all the lisas gone? / Peggy Orenstein -- The design of your life / Virginia Postrel -- Caring for your introvert / Jonathan Rauch -- All the old sciences have starring roles / Chet Raymo -- Sex week at Yale / Ron Rosenbaum -- The cousin marriage conundrum / Steve Sailer -- Bugs in the brain / Robert Sapolsky -- Through the eye of an octopus / Eric Scigliano -- Captivated / Meredith F. Small -- Parallel universes / Max Tegmark -- In click languages, an echo of the tongues of the ancients / Nicholas Wade -- A prolific Genghis Khan, it seems, helped people the world / Nicholas Wade. |
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