1Brain
25The rocky road to finding a cure for cholesterol
2The man who could not forget
26Cell police
3Willpower is a finite resource
27The study of digestion through a hole in the stomach
4How to raise a genius
28How a surfer won the Nobel Prize
5The wisdom of psychopaths
29The Neanderthal genome project
6Nature gave us four kinds of happiness
30The first intensive care unit
7The marshmallow experiment
31Society
8Thinking, fast and slow
32Three stages of revolt
9The organ for happiness
33The wisdom of crowds
10Can animals think?
34What money can't buy
11Pushing the limits of free will
35The Stanford prison experiment and the Lucifer effect
12The biology of self-control and instinctive willpower
36Why is one environment more creative than another?
13The social brain
37The equation that almost destroyed capitalism
14The brain: detective on the trail of a serial killer
38Autocorrect
15Numbers
39History
16The genius who never existed
40An ancient poem explaining the nature of things
17The man who proved that not everything could be proven
41David Hume – the Newton of moral sciences
18The mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana
42The artillery of heaven and the heretical rod
19Scientists on vacation
43A meeting of two minds – one admired, the other feared
20The birth of electromagnetism
44The magnificence of Chinese science revealed
21The universe as a quantum computer
45The “traitorous eight” make it on their own
22Calculating the weather
46Babies, between Kant and the Molluscs
23Life
47A note on the author
24Thank you for not following our recommendations
48In praise of the series
