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Kevin Berger

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

We Are All Bewildered Machines

Bewilderment is the antidote to scientific reductionism.

November 9, 2018

This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths

Nick Chater argues our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world.

July 24, 2018

Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?

The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.

March 20, 2018

Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary

The neuroscientist explains why feelings evolved.

January 18, 2018

Why Females Decide What’s Beautiful

Uncovering the nature of sexual selection.

November 13, 2017

Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?

We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses.

October 26, 2017

Why We Still Need Monsters

This month’s Ingenious, Stephen T. Asma, on what haunts us.

October 12, 2017

Ingenious: Albert Camus

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

June 29, 2017

Ingenious: Dalton Conley

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

May 31, 2017

Ingenious: Lisa Feldman Barrett

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

March 30, 2017