The ways in which sports betting and predictive markets are ruining lives The post How Gambling Addiction Is Changing in a Polymarket World appeared first on Nautilus.
New research reveals complex attitudes about prosocial lies The post When Liars Are Perceived as More Moral appeared first on Nautilus.
Nautilus: Let There Be Dark
Feb 03
To unleash your imagination, step out of the light The post Let There Be Dark appeared first on Nautilus.
“It’s like we have recreated a little bit of the universe in a bottle in our lab” The post Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab appeared first on Nautilus.
New research sheds light on the mysterious underwater structure The post How the “Atlantic Grand Canyon” Came to Exist appeared first on Nautilus.
In 2013, the year when the Edward Snowden intelligence leaks hit the news, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) annual report stated that the New Zealand spy agency’s mission was...
Granta: As Usual
Feb 03
‘Nalli bones, ribs, liver and other meat pieces were bathing in steam. In the fragrance of the saaru, she forgot the incident.’ A short story by H.R. Ramesh, translated from the Kannada by...
Early Pleistocene cave fossils reveal unique avifauna that were ultimately wiped out by natural disasters The post The Birds That Roamed New Zealand a Million Years Ago appeared first on Nautilus.
A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.
Privacy's true value: protecting epistemic spaces where knowledge can grow without surveillance or performative pressure. You're optimizing for the wrong problem and it's not making you smarter.
“Fascism” has become a thought-terminating concept, giving liberals license to embrace their fear and loathing of working people who disagree with them.
“This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is the farewell kiss, you dog!”
The metaphor of rewiring offers an ideal of engineered precision. But the brain is more like a forest than a circuit board- by Peter LukacsRead on Aeon
This February, Rhizome.org arrives in Bengaluru for a special evening program, presented in partnership with Claude and the Museum of Art & Photography. Apply now to take part! Marking the...
The scientific quest for a playlist that’s all killer, no filler The post How Brain-Scanning Earbuds Could Build the Perfect Playlist appeared first on Nautilus.
“Life was cheap in this ecosystem” The post Baby Sauropods Were the Potato Chips of the Jurassic Era appeared first on Nautilus.
And how it would affect us now The post The Geomagnetic Storm That Sparked Panic Across a Continent appeared first on Nautilus.
Senator Markwayne Mullin bought stock in leading defense and oil companies just five days before Trump ordered the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Mullin follows in the footsteps of his...
New research shows the popular sleep sound could be doing more harm than good The post Pink Noise Could be Ruining Your Sleep appeared first on Nautilus.
Expertise hierarchies are inevitable. Math proves "emergent order" fails, creating network aristocracy. Formal, auditable regulation is the only path to survival. Receipts or rot.
Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology. The post...
They may dodge predatory wasps by twitching away at the sound of their approach The post How These Caterpillars Use Their Body Hair to Listen for Danger appeared first on Nautilus.
The 21st-Century Family RomanceBRIAN CONNOLLY In 1977, Paul Gebhard, an anthropologist and sexologist at Indiana University, was consulted for an article in Penthouse Magazine on the incest taboo....
coming from Simon & Schuster 10/27
It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Aeon: Victims and villains
Feb 02
In Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, workers are being enslaved but the boundary between victim and perpetrator is blurred- by Ivan Franceschini & Ling LiRead on Aeon
Pierre Guyotat’s Empire of FilthElena Comay Del Junco Sophie Bassouls, Portrait of Pierre Guyotat, 1984 Shortly after being given a copy of Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden (1970) by a friend...
Simulated decentralized networks under extreme attack: wealth concentration, propaganda, coordination gaming. Reveals a binary reality—defense mechanisms must exceed a critical threshold
if AI forever changes human life, you won't have to persuade anyone it's happened
ROSS DOUTHAT: It is impossible for me—as a religious person, I’m sorry—not to look at progressivism right now and say, “You need something else on the […] The post On the Liberal...
The Point: Right and Left
Feb 01
No great American novel has ever emerged from the nation’s capital, Christopher Hitchens once observed. London had Dickens—Paris, Zola and Flaubert. And Washington, D.C.? A […] The post...
Most of us, at least once, come to a moment when the contradictions between the world as we prefer to imagine it and the world […] The post The Art of Nostalgia appeared first on The Point...
The Point: Beyond Equality
Feb 01
“Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Tim Walz grinned at Kamala Harris during their first joint rally back in August 2024. It was a […] The post Beyond Equality appeared first on The...
