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Why Women Choose Differently at Work
Psychologist Susan Pinker on the role of choice in gender differences in the workplace.
What Does David Attenborough Really Think of Darwin?
A casual viewer of nature documentaries might surmise that the man was hired to narrate the scripts merely because he’s got a great voice.
The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood
An Alphabet subsidiary is planning to build a futuristic neighborhood, not out of concrete and steel, but wood—and wood is looking good.Photograph by Daici Ano / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last month, Dan Doctoroff, the C.E.O. of Sidewalk Labs, Google’s sibling company under Alphabet, answered a […]
What Question Will You Be Remembered For?
Last week, John Brockman announced this year’s Edge.org “Annual Question” to be the last, and it has an appropriately culminating feel to it: “What is the last question?”Illustration by Sascha Grusche / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . John Brockman has run out of questions, and it’s a […]
The Irony of the Pope Decrying Fake News
It’s hard to ignore the irony of the leader of the Catholic religion decrying intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, to which Catholic dogma has contributed for centuries.Illustration by DonkeyHotey / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Pope Francis may be the first pontiff in Roman Catholic history to embrace […]
How to Use Blinkist Properly
There’s a right way and a wrong way to use Blinkist. You’ll still want to do some reading, for one thing.Photograph by Jonathan Grado / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The summer reading for my senior-year A.P. psych class was Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, the bestseller all about […]
Why Did a Billionaire Give $75 Million to a Philosophy Department?
Philosophy matters. The new challenges of the genomics revolution, the rise of AI, the growth in inequality, societal fragmentation, and our capacity for devastating war all invite philosophical perspective.Painting by Otto Scholderer / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last week, for the first time in recent memory, […]
The Antidote to “Black Mirror” Virtual Reality
We will take VR far, in creative and unanticipated ways, but it will also be mundane, contrary to the bleak alarm peddled by Black Mirror.Image courtesy Netflix / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Both of Black Mirror’s virtual-reality episodes, “USS Callister” this season and “Playtest” in last […]
The Real Difference Between You and a Plant
The best way to draw the line sounds less biological than poetic: What separates us is the “difference between staying and going,” as Hope Jahren, the geochemist and geobiologist, puts it.Vincent van Gogh / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One way to rouse someone is to ask: […]
Can PTSD Be Good for You?
There’s no way to be sure what will traumatize someone, and not everyone exposed to “trauma” develops PTSD.