Foreword / Gareth Cook -- Introduction / Maria Popova -- I. You. Dancing in the air / John Huet, Dave Nadeau, Chin Wang, Marne Mayer, Karen Frank, Nick Galac, Amy Brachmann & Rebecca Nordquist -- Where have all the Elmers gone? / Allison McCann & Nate Silver -- Wedding costs, state by state / Alissa Scheller, Ashley Reich & Katy Hall -- The unhealthy office / Laura Stanton & Bonnie Berkowitz -- 2,000 calories / Darcy Eveleigh, Tony Cenicola, Troy Griggs, Josh Barro, David Leonhardt, & Claire Cain Miller -- The truth about startups / Kristin Lenz, Kris Frieswick, Susan Coleman, Carmen Cotei & Joseph Farhat -- Baseball borders / Tom Giratikanon, Josh Katz, David Leonhardt & Kevin Quealy -- How ebola attacks / Patterson Clark -- Names by profession / Mark Edmond -- Follow the spot / Robert Nippoldt, Christine Goppel & David Ehelert -- Beer on Twitter / Ate Poorhuis & Matthew Zook -- Your life, in week / Tim Urban --
II. Us. Global fruit bow / Susan Welchman, Juan Velasco, Paulette Tavormina, John Grimwade, Maggie Zackowitz & Alex Stegmaier -- Women of ISIS / Karishma Sheth & Thomas Alberty -- What a soldier's arm is worth / Alberto Cuadra -- The global flow of people / Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel & Ramon Bauer -- Introducing the pianogram / Joseph Yuen -- America's GDP, split / Alexandr "Sasha" Trubetskoy -- Who cooked with you? / Christopher Cristiano, Mary Jane Weedman, Kate Copeland, Rob Patronite, Robin Raisfeld, Thomas Alberty & Adam Moss -- Commuter science / Ryan Morris, Catherine Zuckerman & Juan Velasco -- Letters in a word / David Taylor -- How fast do ideas move? / Giorgia Lupi, Simone Quadri, Gabriele Rossi, Glauco Mantegari, Pietro Guinea Montalvo, Davide Ciuffi (all at Accurat) & Katie Peek -- Chess trends / Randy Olson -- The science gender gap / Melissa Lewis, Kay Watson, Katie Hill, Jen Christiansen, Amanda Hobbs & Seth Fletcher -- Spurious correlations / Tyler Vigen -- Where militants come from / Gene Thorp -- Deaths in day care / Lazaro Gamio -- What do Americans speak? / Ben Blatt -- Literature, broken down / Pop Chart Lab -- A day in the life of pro athlete / Luke Knox, Shira Springer, Chiqui Esteban & Joe Sullivan -- All the guns / Richard Johnson, Alberto Cuadra, Todd Lindeman, Kennedy Elliott & Ted Mellnik -- Bro map / Nikhil Sonnad -- The money-go-round / Lee Simmons, Josef Reyes, Valerio Pellegrini & Sarah Fallon -- Water, war and peace / Wesley Grubbs, Mladen Balog, Ri Liu, Nick Yahnke, Shujian Bu (all at Pitch Interactive Inc.) & Katie Peek -- Boy ban blueprint / Heather Jones & Emily Barone -- Styrofoam population / Ewa Tuteja --
III. Material world. A family tree of glow / Eleanor Lutz -- Baby animals / Richard Johnson & Bonnie Berkowitz -- How we pay / Lily Chow, Ben Gibson, Elizabeth Dexheimer, Robert Friedman, Ronald Henkoff & Siung Tjia -- Secrets of Il Duomo / Fernando G. Baptista, Matthew Twombly, Daniela Santamarina, José Miguel Mayo, Margaret Ng, Whitney Smith, Lauren James, A. R. Williams, Fanna Gebreyesus & Elizabeth Snodgrass -- Drone down / Alberto Cuadra, Emily Chow & Craig Whitlock -- Native horses / Fernando G. Baptista, Aldo Chiappe, Debbie Gibbons, Matthew Twombly, Jane Vessels & Patricia Healy -- Inside a deadly recall / Guilbert Gates -- How spring will change / Katie Peek, Todd Detwiler, Jonathan Kambouris, Joel Kimmel, Amber Williams & Kate Baggaley -- Time travel / Carl De Torres, Erik Carnes, Seth Kadish, Sarah Fallon, Lexi Pandell, Billy Sorrentino, Caleb Bennet & Allie Fisher -- Dominant, ancient, extinct / Jonathan Corum & Samuel M. Gon III -- Not just unique / Andy Brunning -- Poop to power / Bonnie Berkowitz & Todd Lindeman -- Portrait of a fish / Fernando G. Baptista & Shizuka Aoki -- California drying / Kyle Kim & Thomas Suh Lauder -- The planet's top killers / Carl De Torres, Luke Shuman, Ian Saunders, Josh Daniel, Anu Horsman & David Roodman -- Rosetta, philae, and the comet / Jasiek Krzysztofiak, Kelly Krause, Wesley Fernandes & Elizabeth Gibney -- A plane vanishes / Sergio Peçanha, Timothy Wallace, Derek Watkins & Archie Tse -- Fight for "first bird" / Emily Willoughby, Jasiek Krzysztofiak, Kelly Krause, Wesley Fernandes, Ewen Callaway & Vladimir Nikolov -- Weather radials / Timm Kekeritz -- Olympic vision / Wilson Andrews, Larry Buchanan, Joe Burgess, Shan Carter, Ford Fessenden, Mika Gröndahl, Jeremy White, Angel Franco & Richard Perry -- Lego story / Elise Craig, Sarah Fallon, Josef Reyes & Todd Tankersley -- Forgotten world / Ryan Morris --
IV. Interactive / Simon Rogers
Wizard's shooting stars / Todd Lindeman & Lazaro Gamio
Inside the great firewall / Sisi Wei, Lena Groeger, Mike Tigas, Yue Qiu & Scott Klein
The colors of motion / Charlie Clark
Urban layers / Greta Dimitrova & Kiril Mandov
A career at bat / Shan Carter, Joe Ward & David Waldstein
A map of every satellite / David Yanofsky & Tim Fernholz
A day in the life of a taxi / Chris Whong
Born here, died there / Maximilian Schich, Mauro Martino, Kerri Smith, Charlotte Stoddart & Allison Abbot
What the world eats / Fathom Information Design, Xaquín González Veira, Jason Treat, John Kondis & Alex Stegmaier
Nychenge / Andrew Hill, Sergio Alvarez, Javier Alce & contributors to Open Street Map.