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Art Is Long, Science Is Longer

My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.

December 17, 2014

Art Is Long, Science Is Longer

My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.

December 17, 2014

The New You

Introducing the Winter 2015 Nautilus Quarterly.

November 20, 2014

The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations

That song stuck in your head is your brain doing its work.

October 31, 2014

Ingenious: Vijay Iyer

On the science and talent of music.

October 30, 2014

Einstein Among the Daffodils

A science historian and English professor discuss how physics and poetry mix.

Rhythm’s the Thing

Pianist Vijay Iyer gives us a master class in the science of rhythm.

October 23, 2014

The Distant Future, 30 Years On

The Fall 2014 Quarterly looks ahead.

September 11, 2014

The Book No One Read

Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention.

September 11, 2014

The Art of Painting

Stanley Kubrick and Johannes Vermeer try to see eye-to-eye.