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We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses.

How we fill gaps in our everyday experiences.

For one thing, you won’t like IPAs.

Ignorant and lucky at the bottom of the Earth.

The universal grip of Stephen King’s personal terrors.

The science of the wandering mind.

This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.

Our brains are compelled by category violations.

The captivating horror of category violation.

Science has given new life to an old thirst.

The cosmological constant and the creation of the universe.

The stories we tell about the epidemic get things backward.