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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 / Robe...

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 adv...

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...

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 d...

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 / H...

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...