Cities
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City Living Makes Animals Dishonest
Honesty is the basis of any good relationship. This is as true for animals as it is for humans. When a peahen is looking for a mate, she sees a peacock’s tail as an honest signal of his quality. “Look at me!” says her suitor, wiggling his ridiculous display from side to side, “I can […] -
Take Two Hikes and Call Me in the Morning
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One hundred sixty years ago, Henry David Thoreau published his magnum opus, Walden. In it he detailed his time spent living alongside nature in a cabin adjacent to Walden Pond. In one of the book’s emblematic lines, Thoreau wrote, “We can never […] -
Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter
Pieces of SolaRoad, concrete blocks topped with solar cells, were recently installed in a bike path in Holland.SolaRoad Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Remember having to stay at home and wait for phone calls? (If you’re below a certain age, you can consult old movies, books, or TV […] -
Seeing Maps of Sounds and Smells
Jorge Louis Borges once described an empire that wanted to build a map. But the maps they had seen before were not precise enough. They had too much compression and approximation. There was too much inexactitude. And so the empire eventually made a map of the empire that was the size of the empire, and […]