Kevin Berger
Why We Still Need Monsters
This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.
The Jazz Pianist Vijay Iyer Played “Remembrance” for Us on 9/11
Iyer analyzes the morphology of jazz with the precision of a scientist.Photograph by Bruno Bollaert / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When we visited Vijay Iyer three years ago, on Sept. 11, at his home in Harlem, the monthly Nautilus theme was Genius. The jazz pianist was […]
Ingenious: Albert Camus
A reconstructed conversation with the great writer about science and the absurd.
Ingenious: Dalton Conley
The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.
Ingenious: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Inside a new theory of emotions that spotlights how the brain works.
The Secret of Buckminister Fuller’s World-Changing Ideas Was Serendipity
In his 2016 book, You Belong to the Universe, Jonathon Keats sets out to release Buckminister Fuller from “the zany sci-fi designs that made him notorious, and rescue him from the groupies who have impounded him as a cultish prophet.” Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Keats, a writer […]
Revisiting “Moneyball” with Paul DePodesta
Shattering preconceptions about players isn’t all about the numbers.
The Cello Music of the Spheres
Experience mathematical beauty and symmetry in a multimedia work.
Why Ancient Greeks Might Have Had Much Different Colors Than We Do
As a philosopher who studies the meaning of color, Mazviita Chirimuuta is well aware that philosophy can easily get stuck on that topic. In her recent book, Outside Color, Chirimuuta tries to move beyond one of the major hang-ups when thinking about color, arguing that the property should be defined not by the world outside or inside […]
More Sex Talk from the Love Scientist
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last month in my Nautilus interview with love scientist Helen Fisher, we had a good time parrying over the value of viewing sex and romance in the pixels of a brain scan. Usually, she says, her friends and acquaintances, as well as […]