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Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

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David C. Krakauer is the president and William H Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.

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The Typewriter’s Love of the Desert

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>.

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Emergence

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