Stress

28 articles
  • gum control

    Environment

    The Case for Common Sense Gum-Control

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . To walk the streets of New York and think about all the little black spots on the sidewalks is a little like pondering the stars in the night sky: How many people must have walked this way, deciding at just this moment […]

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    Zoology

    The Oldest, Coldest Mammals May Be Some of the Best Prepared for Climate Change

    Tim Melling/Getty Images Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The Arctic they grew up in is unrecognizable, but bowhead whales are oddly calm. They appear to be unexpectedly benefitting from the warmer, less icy climate that has emerged over the past decade. Last month, it was announced that the Arctic in 2015 reached […]

  • spacesuit on sMars

    Health

    Stress on Simulated Mars Was Not What I Expected

    For 6 crewmembers who have supposedly traveled 150 million miles—and were, beforehand, complete strangers—we have remarkably little space. For more than 100 days we’ve been conducting NASA-sponsored studies at HI-SEAS—Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation—8,000 feet above sea level, in a dome around the size of a 3-bedroom apartment without real-time communication, to help understand […]

  • walking dead

    Health

    Here’s Where “The Walking Dead” Goes Wrong With Zombies

    Bill Clark/Getty Images Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Rick Grimes is cornered. A walker shuffles toward him, thoughtless yet eager for flesh. Sweat drips through Grimes’ thick beard, grown in the hundreds of fearful days and nights since the dead started to roam the earth. He quickly reaches […]

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    Arts

    You Have At Least This Many Identities

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Liana Finck’s cartoons appear in the New Yorker. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published in 2014.

  • bullbear

    Economics

    A Real-Life Trader Talks About “The Big Short”

    After watching The Big Short, I felt I had a decent grasp on the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. The film, which is being released across the United States today, is based on the book by Michael Lewis, and describes how a few prescient financiers bet against the debt bubble and made millions. Nautilus […]