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Nautilus

Rose Eveleth

Math

The Most Symmetrical Objects in the World

Amos Zeeberg

Health

How the Big Wrong Fat Message Got So Widely Accepted

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Environment

Weaving the World’s Stories Like an Expert Carpet-Maker

Simone M. Scully

You Can “Catch” Stress Through a TV Screen

Amy Maxmen

Evolution

Evolution May Be Drunk, But It’s Serious About Making Brains

Robert X.D. Hawkins

General

Forest for the Trees—Why We Recognize Faces & Constellations

The Universe, Expanding Symmetrically and Eternally

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.

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The Most Symmetrical Objects in the World

How the Big Wrong Fat Message Got So Widely Accepted

Weaving the World’s Stories Like an Expert Carpet-Maker

You Can “Catch” Stress Through a TV Screen

Evolution May Be Drunk, But It’s Serious About Making Brains

Forest for the Trees—Why We Recognize Faces & Constellations

The Universe, Expanding Symmetrically and Eternally

Was the Golden Rule Born in the Mind of a Monkey?

What It Means to Live in a Holographic Universe

“White Holes” Could Exist—But That Doesn’t Mean They Do

How to Learn to Love to Practice

A Reader-Powered Scrapbook of Nautilus’ First Year in Print