1Numbers
34The afterlife of Henrietta Lacks
2A mathematical melodrama
35A Russian Indiana Jones
3What is randomness?
36Creating a second paradise
4When our sense of probability deceives us
37Alexander von Humboldt – adventurer and scientist
5The man who counted infinity
38Feral children
6The hermit of the Pyrenees
39The war of images
7Is marriage a mathematical operation?
40Hobbits from the isle of Flores
8A mathematical intrigue at the Swedish court
41Lucy, more precious than diamonds
9Worshippers of mathematical infinity
42Paracelsus – Martin Luther of medicine
10The man who believed machines could think
43No more bananas?
11Chaos and the butterfly effect
44The bioethics of conception
12Atoms
45Brain
13Searching for the beginning of time
46How can I tell you're not a robot?
14The priest who came up with the Big Bang
47The man with no memory
15How black holes are born
48She's blind, but she sees
16The origins of continents and oceans
49How babies learn languages
17In search of the perfect machine
50Why people are exceptional readers
18How to release the energy of atoms?
51Watching the birth of a new language
19What are quantum particles telling us?
52Pseudo-patients in psychiatric hospitals
20What can we know about the world of atoms?
53Most submitted to authority
21Molecules
54Too much safety can be dangerous
22Cannibals, insomnia and mad cow disease
55What does the peacock's tail say?
23EPO – The story about 2550 liters of powdered urine
56Who really makes the decisions in our minds?
24Cell police
57Mirror neurons
25The Black Death pandemic
58Brain plasticity
26When a new, unknown disease breaks out
59The invention of permanent innovation
27A deadly virus from the heart of Africa
60Are rewards bad for innovation?
28Malaria
61Einstein and Freud: the meeting of two universes of knowledge
29The child prodigy who became the father of cybernetics
62Why dessert comes last
30Statistics against poverty and disease
63Acknowledgements
31The Pasteurization of heretical ideas
64A note on the author
32Life
65In praise of the book
33What wiped out the dinosaurs?
