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How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . We consider the brain the very center of who we are and what we do: ruler of our senses, master of our movements; generator of thought, keeper of memory. But the brain is also rooted […] -
Horror Fans Have More Fun During a Pandemic
Why shows like “The Walking Dead” might help us cope with the real thing. -
Mars Is a Second-Rate Backup Plan
On the red planet, existential threats abound. -
The Greatest Journey of All Time
How the first Americans made their way from Siberia to Patagonia. -
Do We Need a Theory of Everything?
I get constantly asked if I could please comment on other people’s theories of everything. That could be Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory or Eric Weinstein’s geometric unity or Stephen Wolfram’s idea that the universe is but a big graph, and so on. Good, then. Let me tell you what I think about this. But I’m […]
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The Contagion Detective
Adam Kucharski explains how diseases like COVID-19 and misinformation spread.
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The Damage We’re Not Attending To
Scientists who study complex systems offer solutions to the pandemic.
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The Things We Can’t Control Are Beautiful
How Maria Konnikova found enlightenment at the poker table.