Issue_19

27 articles
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    The Long, Hard Quest to Create Digital Smells

    Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Of all of the wondrous feats accomplished by Willy Wonka in his candy factory, the most impressive may have been wedging an entire meal into just one unassuming stick of gum: Upon popping it in your mouth and chewing, you’d first taste tomato […]
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    What to Do When Your Brain Insists You’re Always on a Boat

    Zvonimir Orec via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .   Last July, Chris Perry went on an Alaskan cruise with her family to celebrate her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. When she boarded the massive Norwegian Sun cruise ship, she felt “a little woozy and weird” from the boat’s […]
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    The Last Word with Jonathan Weiner

    The more science knows, the more rich and mysterious the world becomes.
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    The New Way to Save Money: Playing the Lottery

    Chris Goldberg via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lotteries have often been called a tax on the poor and, alternately, a tax on the innumerate. There is something to both claims: Lottery tickets are disproportionately bought by lower-income people, and in aggregate the players win back only […]
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    When Does a Consciousness Test Not Test for Consciousness?

    A pigeon looks at its reflection in the mirror. It sees a blue dot on the reflection’s breast. It reaches down and pecks at the dot on its own breast. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This is the classic behavior required for passing the “mirror test,” an influential […]
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    The Loneliest Genius

    Isaac Newton spurned social contact but also relied on it for his greatest work.

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    The Rhythm of the Tide

    When I heard data from an island had proven humans are still evolving, I had to visit.

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    The New You

    Introducing the Winter 2015 Nautilus Quarterly.

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    Why Are We So Obsessed With Mugshot Hotties?

    On June 18, a photo of a very handsome man was posted on the Web. It wasn’t intended to “break the Internet” Kardashian-style, but that’s pretty much what happened, if only on a slightly smaller scale. Within 48 hours, the portrait garnered 62,000 “Likes” on Facebook and became an online spectacle. Today the Like count […]

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    How Star Trek May Show the Emergence of Human Consciousness

    The Borg capture Captain Jean-Luc Picard and turn him into Locutus, all but erasing his previous identity.CBS Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .   Captain Picard: “How do we reason with them, let them know that we are not a threat?” Guinan: “You don’t. At least, I’ve never known […]

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

    Paul L Dineen via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Baseball is a fiddly sport. There are countless arbitrary-seeming rules and odd traditions. People who are not familiar with the game sometimes find it near-impossible to understand (and, partly as a consequence, near-impossible to watch). But under the […]