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    The Strange Physics of How Babies Talk

    • By Brian Gallagher
    Different arrangements of words can be likened to microstates in statistical mechanics—the total set of ways a system’s constituent particles can be configured.Photo illustration by Khomich Yauheni / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Like all new parents, I must sound like a kook when I babble along […]
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    Why Campaigns to Change Language Often Backfire

    • By Julie Sedivy
    Opponents of the phrase “car accident” argue that language is intertwined with accountability.Photograph by Alan Poulson Photography / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the first decades of the 20th century, people around the world began succumbing to an entirely new cause of mortality. These new deaths, […]
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    How Freedom Divides

    • By Mark W. Moffett
    An expert on animal societies on what sets human societies apart.
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    Would You Survive a Merger with AI?

    • By Susan Schneider
    The cost of brain enhancement may be your identity.
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    Making a Future Among the Stars

    • By Brian Gallagher
    Elon Musk has helped to advance self-driving electric cars and an implantable brain-machine interface, but when he greeted the crowd in Boca Chica, he said, gesturing at Starship, “This is the most inspiring thing I’ve ever seen.”Photograph by SpaceX Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In Boca Chica, Texas, […]
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