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1 The Delicate Pink Magisterium
If You’re Missing the Tool, Create It
3 The Inside Mirrors the Outside
The Case of the Silver Spring Monkeys
The Afterlife of Lord Horatio Nelson’s Right Arm
Colonization Is a Full-Time Business
What Does Dreaming Have to Do with the Rotation of the Planet?
The Planet-Winning Technology of the Potato Head
Enhancing the Peripherals
Conjuring a New Sensorium
Imagining a New Color
Are You Ready for a New Sensation?
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
The Motor Cortices of Perlman Versus Ashkenazy
Fashioning the Landscape
Dogged
Allowing the Real Estate to Change
The Brain of a Digital Native
7 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
8 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
9 Why Is It Harder to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
The Sensitive Period
Doors Close at Different Rates
Still Changing After All These Years
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
11 The Wolf and the Mars Rover
12 Finding Ötzi’s Long-Lost Love
We Have Met the Shape-Shifters, and They Are Us
