Culture | Neuroscience
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Chapter one
Made You Do It
Biology | Psychology
Five Ways to Lie with Charts
Want to spin your data? Here’s how.
Biology | Neuroscience
Ingenious: Christof Koch
The neuroscientist tackles consciousness and the self.
Culture | Psychology
Fooled By Your Own Brain
Don’t be so certain your senses are telling you the truth.
Biology | Animals
These Males Are Cheating Animals
The tricks they play would make Darwin blush.
Chapter two
Made It Up
Numbers | Math
The Illusion Machine That Teaches Us How We See
A mathematician is using computers to manufacture award-winning illusions.
Biology | Health
Stop Developing Drugs for the Cancer That Killed My Mother
Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.
Ideas | Art
Einstein Among the Daffodils
A science historian and English professor discuss how physics and poetry mix.
Culture | Archaeology
The Curse of the Unlucky Mummy
When science and fear collide, a supernatural story thrives.
Chapter three
Dreaming
Biology | Psychology
When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion
Is there more to our experience of time than the foibles of memory?
Matter | Astronomy
A Quick Spin Around the Big Dipper
See how the night sky would appear from a different part of the galaxy.
Biology | Health
Take Light, Not Drugs
How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
Biology | Psychology
Your Brain Can’t Handle the Moon
How the moon stirs tension between your conscious and subconscious minds.
Biology | Animals
Which Endangered Species Would You Save?
Conservation is in the eye of the beholder.
Chapter four
The Winter 2015 Quarterly
Ideas
The New You
Introducing the Winter 2015 Nautilus Quarterly.
Matter | Physics
The Loneliest Genius
Isaac Newton spurned social contact but also relied on it for his greatest work.
Biology | Evolution
The Last Word with Jonathan Weiner
The more science knows, the more rich and mysterious the world becomes.
Biology | Evolution
The Rhythm of the Tide
When I heard data from an island had proven humans are still evolving, I had to visit.
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