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How to Get Evangelicals to Care About Climate Change
It’s not that evangelicals don’t care about the environment. It’s that they care about people more.Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last year was among the three warmest years ever recorded, 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […] -
The Irony of the Pope Decrying Fake News
It’s hard to ignore the irony of the leader of the Catholic religion decrying intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, to which Catholic dogma has contributed for centuries.Illustration by DonkeyHotey / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Pope Francis may be the first pontiff in Roman Catholic history to embrace […] -
How to Use Blinkist Properly
There’s a right way and a wrong way to use Blinkist. You’ll still want to do some reading, for one thing.Photograph by Jonathan Grado / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The summer reading for my senior-year A.P. psych class was Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, the bestseller all about […] -
Why Did a Billionaire Give $75 Million to a Philosophy Department?
Philosophy matters. The new challenges of the genomics revolution, the rise of AI, the growth in inequality, societal fragmentation, and our capacity for devastating war all invite philosophical perspective.Painting by Otto Scholderer / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last week, for the first time in recent memory, […] -
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Physics contains equations that describe everything from the stretching of space-time to the flitter of photons. Yet only one set of equations is considered so mathematically challenging that it’s been chosen as one of seven “Millennium Prize […]
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The Antidote to “Black Mirror” Virtual Reality
We will take VR far, in creative and unanticipated ways, but it will also be mundane, contrary to the bleak alarm peddled by Black Mirror.Image courtesy Netflix / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Both of Black Mirror’s virtual-reality episodes, “USS Callister” this season and “Playtest” in last […]
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The Real Difference Between You and a Plant
The best way to draw the line sounds less biological than poetic: What separates us is the “difference between staying and going,” as Hope Jahren, the geochemist and geobiologist, puts it.Vincent van Gogh / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One way to rouse someone is to ask: […]
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The Radical Humanism of the Soviet Planetarium
This planetarium was hailed as a successor to Russian theater and the Orthodox Church.
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Can PTSD Be Good for You?
There’s no way to be sure what will traumatize someone, and not everyone exposed to “trauma” develops PTSD. -
The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution
Stone’s silent sister in the archaeological record. -
Your City Has a Gender and It’s Male
Why city designers are increasingly thinking about the female perspective. -
You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everybody Else
Anybody you can name from ancient history is in your family tree. -
Autistic Prodigies Since “Rain Man”
Our evolving understanding of “the engineer’s disease.”