Victor Gomes
How Hidden Social Contexts Influence Your Genetics
Educational attainment has some qualitatively unique features that we’re going to have to be sensitive to when we attempt to study the genetics of it.Photograph by Joey Yee / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What if a wound of yours, a pierced ear, say, healed at a […]
Does Aging Have a Reset Button?
A Stanford researcher’s new take on stem cells.
The Creator of Vsauce Wants Us to Stop Underestimating People’s Intelligence
Michael Stevens’ videos range from 10 to 30 minutes and blend philosophy, mathematics, and science together: “Which way is down?” and “How to count past infinity” are good examples.Vsauce / YouTube Red Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What does the science educator of today look like? With the […]
7 Surprises That Climate Change Will Throw Us
The interdependence of ecosystems and their inhabitants means climate change may force animals, including us, to adapt in surprising ways—some startling changes are to come.“Leiv Eiriksson discovers North America,” by Christian Krohg (1893) Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Rising sea levels, lower air quality, and longer and more […]
The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test
Is Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982’s Blade Runner is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he’s human. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, is adamant that he’s not.* Hampton Fancher, the screenwriter for the original film and the sequel, Blade Runner […]
How Science Makes “Rick and Morty” Great
“Rick and Morty” explores both profound or wacky what-ifs, and more humanistic concerns, like dealing with a divorce or failing high-school. Adult Swim / Turner Broadcasting System Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The season finale of “Rick and Morty,” the Internet Movie Database’s fourth most-popular TV show of […]
Yes, You Get Wiser with Age
Aging gets a bad rap. But disease, decline and discomfort is far from the whole story. Dilip Jeste, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at UC San Diego and director of the UCSD Center for Healthy Aging, is challenging us to take another look. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . […]
Why We Need More Intellectually Promiscuous Scientists
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When Thomas Steitz, Ada Yonath, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research, in 2009, they acknowledged a debt. Without the work of two of the Physics Laureates that year, the chemists would have lacked the CCD […]