Courtney Humphries

Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty.

White has a physical purity. White light contains roughly equal amounts of every color in the visual spectrum, and activates all three types of cone cells in our eyes related to color. As a result, we perceive materials that don’t absorb color, and reflect light back to us, as achromatic—white. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free […]

Our obsession with cleanliness is running afoul of scientific reality.

Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.

Modern architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients.