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Nautilus

Chelsea Wald

Psychology

When Does a Consciousness Test Not Test for Consciousness?

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

Why Are We So Obsessed With Mugshot Hotties?

Jacob Lopata

How Star Trek May Show the Emergence of Human Consciousness

Amos Zeeberg

Technology

What Radar Guns Can’t Tell you About the Speed of Pitches

Rahul Parikh is a physician and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rahul Parikh

Health

Being Mortal: Atul Gawande’s Rx for How to End Our Lives

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.

Jim Davies

How Your Brain Gaslights You—for Your Own Good

How to Avoid the Desperate Future of “Interstellar”

Becca Cudmore

Genetics

Can a Card Game Stealthily Teach People Genetics?

Amy Maxmen

6 Traits of Tomorrow’s Blockbuster Digital Technologies

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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