Issue_59

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    This Famous Aging Researcher Doesn’t Want Us to Live Forever

    In the Netflix anime series Knights of Sidonia, humankind is marooned in a spaceship 500,000-strong, refugees constantly on the run from shapeshifting aliens who destroyed Earth over 1,000 years ago. Both the patriarchy and poverty have been smashed. Advances in genetic engineering have allowed androgynous individuals to proliferate and asexual reproduction to become commonplace. Everybody […]
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    You’re a Bad Judge of How Good-looking You Are

    Why are we such bad judges of how others see us? Epley’s answer is that other people are novices about us, while we’re experts.“The Green Mirror” (1911) by Guy Rose / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . There’s the full-body bedroom mirror, the bathroom mirror, and the trusty […]
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    Why Water Is Weird

    One day, frustrated after many hours of meditation and practice, Bruce Lee, still a teenager, went sailing. His martial arts teacher, Yip Man, had been instructing Lee in the art of detachment, a key facet of gung fu. Lee couldn’t let go. “On the sea I thought of all my past training and got mad […]
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    Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun

    How mirror neurons affect the experience of fandom.
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    Another Side of Feynman

    Nine letters by Freeman Dyson portray his relationship with the Nobel Laureate.
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    What Is It Like to Be a Dolphin?

    Maybe dolphins are more “tuned in” with the world around them, by necessity: a holistic blend of the physical, sensory, and cognitive, all seamless enough to remember to go up for air. Photograph by Matthew Baya / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Humans have come to fetishize […]

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    The Case for More Pox Research

    The horsepox virus could be the basis of an improved smallpox vaccine, more effective and with fewer side effects than the currently available vaccines.Colored etching, “Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows,” by James Gillray / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. […]

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    Freeman Dyson on How Robert Oppenheimer Ran Hot and Cold

    Robert Oppenheimer could be extremely generous and friendly or he could be very harsh. He was very quick to judge and decide that somebody was no good, and then that was final.Photograph by Ed Westcott (U.S. Government photographer) / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Kai Bird is […]

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    Announcing a New Science Magazine from Yale

    The need for specialization and caution in the scientific community is no excuse for its members to renege on the responsibility to engage with the larger community of people we serve.Image courtesy Ancient Fund of the Library of the University of Seville / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now […]

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    Bombers and Pterosaurs Were Both Before Their Time

    The evolution of B-2s and lizards.

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    How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust

    My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.