From the Book - First edition.
The delicate pink magisterium: The child with half a brain; Life's other secret; If you're missing the tool, create it; An ever-changing system
Just add world: How to grow a good brain; Experience necessary; Nature's great gamble
The inside mirrors the outside: The case of the Silver Spring monkeys; The afterlife of Lord Horatio Nelson's right arm; Timing is everything; Colonization is a full-time business; The more the better; Blindingly fast; What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? As outside, so inside
Wrapping around the inputs: The planet-winning technology of the Potato Head; Sensory substitution; The one-trick pony; Eye tunes; Good vibrations; Enhancing the peripherals; Conjuring a new Sensorium; Imagining a new color; Are you ready for a new sensation?
How to get a better body: Will the real Doc Ock please raise his hands?; No standard blueprints; Motor babbling; The motor cortex, marshmallows, and the moon; Self-control; Toys are us; One brain, infinite body plans
Why mattering matters: The motor cortices of Perlman versus Ashkenazy; Fashioning the landscape; Dogged; Allowing the real estate to change; The brain of a digital native
Why love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation: A horse in the river; Making invisible the expected; The difference between what you thought would happen and what actually happened; Going toward the light, or, Sugar, or Data; Adjusting to expect the unexpected
Balancing on the edge of change: When Haiti disappears; How to spread drug dealers evenly; How neurons expand their social network; The benefits of a good death; Is cancer an expression of plasticity gone awry? Saving the brain forest
Why is it harder to teach old dogs new tricks?: Born as many; The sensitive period; Doors close at different rates; Still changing after all these years
Remember when: Talking to your future self; The enemy of memory is not time, it's other memories; Parts of the brain teach other parts; Beyond synapses; Daisy-chaining a range of timescales; Many kinds of memory; Modified by history
The wolf and the Mars rover
Finding Ötzi's long-lost love
We have met the shape-shifters and they are us.
