Balance
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Is Violence Declining Because We’re Evolving More Patience?
Impulsiveness is a heritable trait that may have been maladaptive in agrarian life.
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This Cancer Treatment Extends Life Without Pills, Radiation, or Surgery
The very act of existential unburdening proves to be life prolonging.Photograph by UpperCut Images / Getty Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What would go through your mind if I told you that you had cancer? Perhaps you’d wonder how you got it, or how you were going to […]
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The Quest for Unity Is Not Something Physics Is Cut Out to Do
If physics is understood as a descriptive mode of explanation, free of the unifying quest, the angst of not knowing it all is exorcised.Image by Andrew J. Hanson / Indiana University. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In physics, we like theories that are simple and broad-ranging. By “simple,” […]
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What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Fermi Paradox
The “signal leakage” of our communications is becoming more and more scarce, not more abundant.Illustration by Danielle Futselaar / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Reports of U.F.O. sightings were commonplace in the 1950s. The C.I.A. recently came clean, on Twitter, concerning its role: “Reports of unusual activity […]
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Ingenious: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Inside a new theory of emotions that spotlights how the brain works.
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The Woman Who Gave Us the Science of Normal Life
Before Rachel Carson there was Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT’s first female student.