Jim Davies

maradon 333/Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How we think of time can lead to some odd results. For example, imagine your co-worker says next Wednesday’s meeting has been moved forward two days. When is the meeting going to be held? Your response can be predicted by how […]

Lucas’ droids are halfway between human and inhuman, so we can both love and ignore them.

Shutterstock/PremiumVector Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . As legend has it, it takes most of the year for a retail business to become profitable. After months of being “in the red,” in November they are finally “in the black.” This phrase has been used in this way since 1922. […]

My wife can’t seem to walk for a half-hour around Ottawa, a city with nearly a million people, without running into at least three of her friends. Some people, like my wife, seem to have a zillion of them, while others appear to be content with just a handful. Having more friends seems like a […]

The more we convince ourselves that we don’t have certain biases, the more likely we are to exhibit them.

You don’t have to look very hard to see that our culture has some pretty powerful associations between colors and feelings. As a recent example, the new Pixar film Inside Out has characters representing emotions, and the color choices for these characters—red for anger, and blue for sadness—feel right. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. […]

Tinder—in case you’re not active in the young-person dating pool—is a dating application that shows you pictures of other Tinder users in your area. If you are not interested in meeting the person you see, you swipe their picture to the left. If you are interested, you swipe right. If two people right-swipe each other’s […]

A lot of people don’t like the word “moist.” Several Facebook groups are dedicated to it, one with over 3,000 likes, New Yorker readers overwhelmingly selected it as the word to eliminate from the dictionary, and Jimmy Fallon sarcastically thanked it for being the worst word in the English language. When you ask people why […]

Have you ever been walking in a dark alley and seen something that you thought was a crouching person, but it turned out to be a garbage bag or something similarly innocuous? Me too. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Have you ever seen a person crouching in a […]

“…when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” –Nietzsche Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . For some people, this quote is very evocative. It feels important, and beautiful. Others feel like it doesn’t mean anything at all, because the idea of a deep hole […]