Perspective
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How to Get Evangelicals to Care About Climate Change
It’s not that evangelicals don’t care about the environment. It’s that they care about people more.Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last year was among the three warmest years ever recorded, 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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The Irony of the Pope Decrying Fake News
It’s hard to ignore the irony of the leader of the Catholic religion decrying intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, to which Catholic dogma has contributed for centuries.Illustration by DonkeyHotey / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Pope Francis may be the first pontiff in Roman Catholic history to embrace […]
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How to Use Blinkist Properly
There’s a right way and a wrong way to use Blinkist. You’ll still want to do some reading, for one thing.Photograph by Jonathan Grado / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The summer reading for my senior-year A.P. psych class was Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, the bestseller all about […]
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Why Did a Billionaire Give $75 Million to a Philosophy Department?
Philosophy matters. The new challenges of the genomics revolution, the rise of AI, the growth in inequality, societal fragmentation, and our capacity for devastating war all invite philosophical perspective.Painting by Otto Scholderer / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last week, for the first time in recent memory, […]
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What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Physics contains equations that describe everything from the stretching of space-time to the flitter of photons. Yet only one set of equations is considered so mathematically challenging that it’s been chosen as one of seven “Millennium Prize […]
