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Nautilus

Molly Glick is the newsletter editor of Nautilus.

Molly Glick

Psychology

Cheese Might Haunt Our Dreams

Jeff Yoshimi is a professor and a founding faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Merced. His research areas include neural networks, dynamical systems theory, philosophy of cognitive science, and visualization of complex processes. He is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550727/gaming-cancer/">Gaming Cancer</a>.

Jeff Yoshimi

Technology

Gaming Cancer

Sarah Milligan is a Minnesota-based writer and photographer focusing on the intersection of community, conservation, and culture. Her work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, Rewilding Magazine, and others. She holds postgraduate degrees in conservation science from Imperial College London and environment and development from the London School of Economics.

Sarah Milligan

Zoology

These Bees Are Tricksters

Katherine Harmon Courage is the executive editor at Nautilus.

Katherine Harmon Courage

Environment

Saltier, Hotter Sea Springs a Leak in Ice Sheets

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

Philosophy

The Past Is a Ghost and the Future a Fantasy

Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

General

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Laura Spinney is a writer and science journalist. Her writing on science has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, Nature and National Geographic, among others. She is the author of two novels, The Doctor (2001) and The Quick (2007), and a collection of oral history, Rue Centrale (2013). Her bestselling non-fiction account of the 1918 flu pandemic, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World (2017), was translated into more than 20 languages. Her latest book, Proto: How Once Ancient Language Went Global, the story of the Indo-European languages, appeared in 2025. She lives in Paris.

Laura Spinney

Communication

Chasing Lost Languages

Laughing Apes Take Risks

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Arts

“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and the author of numerous books, including <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dark-ecology/9780231177528/">Dark Ecology</a> (Columbia University Press), <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674034853">Ecology Without Nature</a> (Harvard University Press), and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551755/being-ecological/">Being Ecological</a>, from which this article is excerpted.

Timothy Morton

Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem

Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

Bob Grant

Ancient Seas Hosted the Ultimate Squid Game

Gabriel Popkin is a freelance science and environmental writer based in Mount Rainier, Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital. He has written for Science, Nature, The New York Times, Johns Hopkins Magazine, APS News and many others.

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