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The gambler's fallacy and other tales from the casino

In What's Luck Got To Do With It?, mathematician Joseph Mazur uses history and psychology to explain why gamblers' intuitions dupe them

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Mapping the mountain of human DNA

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A psychologist inside the mind of suicide bombers

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When the ice caps melt

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Strange facts from the far side of research

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Malaria, the killer that won't go away

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The discovery of energy

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A backstage pass to the circus of super-long life

A backstage pass to the circus of super-long life

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The waves you know and ones you've never noticed

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The madness and love that built the periodic table

In The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean brings to life the idiosyncrasies of the chemical elements – and their discoverers

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How artificial light transformed our world

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Why people indulge in cannibalism and love modern art

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The long quest for the origins of mass

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Apocalypse, but not right now

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