Kevin Berger

Iyer analyzes the morphology of jazz with the precision of a scientist.Photograph by Bruno Bollaert / Flickr 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 glad to talk about the subject and play signature pieces by Thelonious […]

A reconstructed conversation with the great writer about science and the absurd.

The Princeton sociologist explains why race is not a scientific category.

Inside a new theory of emotions that spotlights how the brain works.

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.”Keats, a writer and artist who whips up his own world-changing ideas through trickster gallery and […]

Shattering preconceptions about players isn’t all about the numbers.

Experience mathematical beauty and symmetry in a multimedia work.

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 […]

   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 […]

Talking sex, brains, and commitment with the best-selling scientist of love.