Politics
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Collective Intelligence Will End Identity-based Politics
It is possible to imagine, explore, and promote forms of consciousness that enhance awareness as well as dissolve the artificial illusions of self and separate identity.Photo illustration by Shane Taremi / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The Canadian poet Dennis Lee once wrote that the consolations of […] -
Will the March for Science Matter?
The closer one looks, the more intractable the politics become.Photograph by Mihai Petre / Wikicommons Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Here’s a hypothesis worth testing: If anybody concerned with science was left on the fence about whether the April 22 March for Science was a worthwhile endeavor, a […] -
Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close?
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The Real Reason You’re Voting for Clinton or Trump
The Lebanese-Canadian professor of marketing Gad Saad (both sound like “sad”) can readily defend evolutionary psychology against the charge that it’s a convenient, “just-so story.” (Before diving in, he said, “Forgive me, it’s going to be a bit long-winded, because your question is an important one.”) He founded and developed the field of “evolutionary consumption” […] -
Why Were the UK Election Polls So Wrong? A Statistical Mystery
Workers count votes at a polling place in Worcester, Mass.SuperStock via Getty Images Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Last Thursday the UK’s Conservative Party stomped to an electoral victory that fairly shocked the country. The Tories won a comfortable majority of seats in parliament, enabling them to govern […]
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Iran’s Great, Dying Salt Lake
As Urmia dries up, it leaves huge salt beaches behind.Giulio M via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The last time my cousin Houman traveled to Lake Urmia was 10 years ago. He and four of his friends piled into his car and drove for roughly 12 hours, […]
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Your Genetic Privacy Is Probably a Lost Cause
Any cup you sip from could provide a sample bearing your DNA. dohtoor via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Almost everywhere you go, you leave a bit of yourself behind—a hair, a fingernail clipping, a bit of skin, a few skin cells from your lips on a […]
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Iron Curtain of the Mind—Our Tangled Thoughts on Geography
An East German border guard keeps a lookout for people trying to escape from communist Berlin to freedom on the other side of the wall. US National Archives Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . How well do we know the countries we call home? It seems obvious that travel […]
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One Weird Trick to Save the World (Using Polar Bears)
This is exactly the kind of photo you would not see in environmentalist literature.BMJ / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When environmentalists petitioned to designate the polar bear a threatened animal under the Endangered Species Act in 2005, they were not, in fact, out to save the […]
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How We Could Find Alien Life Soon—and Why We Probably Won’t
Despite their great distance from Earthbound politics, exoplanets were the topic of a joint hearing on May 9th of the House space and research subcommittees. The recent discovery of a trio of temperate super-Earths was the hearing’s impetus, but most of the discussion was devoted to future prospects—chiefly, how and when scientists might learn whether […]