Food
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New Veggies for a Warming Planet
We need a diversity of crops to adapt to Earth’s changing climate. -
Herbicide Is What’s for Dinner
How the biggest farming practice you’ve never heard of is changing your food. -
A Eulogy for a Cow
How commodified animals die. -
The Best Burger Place Is a Lab
Growing meat cell by cell is better for your wallet and the world. -
Should You Feed Your Kid Probiotics?
It’s not as simple as you think.
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How Your Brain Gaslights You—for Your Own Good
Nailia Schwarz via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Runners can tell you that sometimes the last mile of a run seems to feel dramatically longer than the first. This perceptual distortion isn’t limited to brains addled by exercise—it’s a consistent feature of our minds. When we look […]
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How to Avoid the Desperate Future of “Interstellar”
In 2011 America’s astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was on Real Time with Bill Maher discussing the proposed termination of NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which the House Appropriations Committee had decried as “billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.” Tyson went on to deliver what is now one of his most famous quotes: Nautilus […]
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Why Is the Merger Called Mayonnaise Loved—& Hated—so Deeply?
While a strong trend in the culinary arts has been to let individual, natural ingredients shine through, one food has quietly come to dominate the retail market by merging a group of incongruous ingredients together. Mayonnaise, that familiar white goop hiding in your sandwich and coleslaw, is officially the most valuable condiment in the nation. […]
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Want Fungus in That? Our Delicious & Useful Rotten Foods
Imagine a bowl of half-cooked beans coated in a layer of fibrous, white mold. Dotted across the surface of the mold are little black and blue spores. It smells faintly of ammonia. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Sound appetizing? It might seem too much like the remnants of […] -
Your Very Weird, Very Personal Sense of Smell
We’re used to the idea that some among us are colorblind, perceiving the world differently because of a quirk in their genetics. And it’s well-known that teenagers and young adults can hear high-pitched sounds that their elders cannot, an ability that’s been exploited by manufacturers of The Mosquito, an anti-loitering device that annoys youth into leaving. […]