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Roohi Choudhry

Arts

Scientists Have No Defense Against Awe

Susie Neilson

How Butterfly Genitalia Inspired Nabokov’s Masterpieces

Gayil Nalls, Ph.D., is the creator of World Sensorium and founder of the World Sensorium Conservancy.

Gayil Nalls

These Moving Portraits Offer an Uncanny View of the Human Body

Science Should Be Totally Beautiful

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics and most recently, Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love.

Julie Sedivy

Is Multilingual Rap Eroding Canada’s French Language?

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Arts

Scientists Have No Defense Against Awe

How Butterfly Genitalia Inspired Nabokov’s Masterpieces

These Moving Portraits Offer an Uncanny View of the Human Body

Science Should Be Totally Beautiful

Is Multilingual Rap Eroding Canada’s French Language?

Watch Carl Sagan Discuss Aliens in This Wonderfully Animated Radio Interview

The Man Who Changed How Artists and Scientists Work Together

My Family, My Science

Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On

You Have At Least This Many Identities

Whom He May Devour

Inside the Mind of a Caricaturist