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Kevin Berger

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

Will the world now wake up to the global threat of zoonotic diseases?

March 13, 2020

The 5 Most Popular Nautilus Feature Articles in 2019

Readers’ favorite articles explore tree smarts and the end of the gene as we know it.

December 31, 2019

I Am Not a Machine. Yes You Are.

Debating the impact of machine-created art.

December 4, 2019

Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another

A linguist exposes the inner truths about language.

September 18, 2019

Language Both Enraptures and Deceives Us

An interview with linguist and writer Julie Sedivy.

September 11, 2019

Human Emotions Are Personal Narratives

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux on what makes our brains unique.

August 28, 2019

A Novelist Teaches Herself Physics

To explore loss and mystery, Nell Freudenberger journeyed into the atomic world.

August 14, 2019

We’re More of Ourselves When We’re in Tune with Others

Music reminds us why going solo goes against our better nature.

July 24, 2019

When We Were the Cosmos

The director of the Griffith Observatory revisits the dawn of astronomy.

June 19, 2019

Watch and See: The Medium Really Is the Message

How communication technologies shaped the arts and sciences.

February 20, 2019

Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

What is neuroscience doing to art?

February 7, 2019

How We’ll Forget John Lennon

Our culture has two types of forgetting.

January 9, 2019