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Nautilus

Regan Penaluna is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about science, philosophy, and the natural world. Her book How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Regan Penaluna

Communication

Is DNA the Language of the Book of Life?

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

Technology

Will Humans Be Able to Control Computers That Are Smarter Than Us?

Sean Raymond is an American astrophysicist working at the <a href="https://astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/?lang=en">Bordeaux Astrophysical Laboratory</a> in France. He also writes a blog at the interface of science and fiction (<a href="https://planetplanet.net/">planetplanet.net</a>) and published a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ">book of astronomy poems</a>.

Sean Raymond

Astronomy

Forget “Earth-Like” Worlds

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.

Julie Sedivy

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness—It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick

Venkat Srinivasan

History

The Brilliant “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age

Jacob Lopata

Why Spaceflight Will Never Be as Safe as Modern Aviation

Making Sense of Data Stored in Our Machines—& in Our Heads

Joe Hanson

Alan Turing sculpture Bletchley Park Stephen Kettle 

Psychology

Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon

Claire Cameron

Arts

6 Pieces of Art That Open Minds—and Get Stuff Done

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>. He’s the author of Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science. You can find his podcast about psychedelics, Luminous, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/series/luminous">here</a>.

Steve Paulson

Art’s Biggest Wheel Turns Toward Science

Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

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