We may get an exceptionally strong El Niño this year, but we’ve been tracking the climatic cycle since 1578 The post The Centuries-Old History of the Super El Niño appeared first on Nautilus.
from Rolling Stone's Jackie to Sam Altman's sister, the rules shift and definitions strain
Astronomers find a pair of super close, supermassive black holes for the first time The post Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Cosmic Collision Course appeared first on Nautilus.
How ancient reproduction paved the way for mammals The post Solid Proof That Our Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs appeared first on Nautilus.
AI is being used to prove new results at a rapid pace. Mathematicians think this is just the beginning. The post The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived first appeared on Quanta Magazine
On April 6, The New York Times ran an article under the headline “CIA’s Deception Plan Helped Divert Iranians from Missing American” by Julian Barnes.[1] The article noted that, when two...
the first time love touched me,
Aeon: I am Sámi
Apr 13
This short documentary asks what it means to be Sámi today, following decades-long state-mandated assimilation attempts- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity- by Coreen McGuire & Alex AylwardRead on Aeon
For the people of Guam, the current time is the calm before The Storm. A Super Typhoon Sinlaku churns across the Philippine Sea, targeting Northern … The post Explosive Category 5 Monster:...
The Generic Pleasures of RomanceAnna Kornbluh Photo by Roberta Sant’Anna Before it was a fantasy teaching us how to desire, romance was a genre. A genre of twelfth-century narrative derived from...
What will happens in our second peasanthood
Grant Farred examines Martin Heidegger’s paradoxical claim that we do not know what thinking is, but can recognize when we are not thinking. Heidegger's claim is that thinking emerges through...
ŽIŽEK GOADS AND PRODS: “PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE – ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY DO NOT HAVE IT”
Apr 11
To talk about terror today without mentioning the US and Israel is the ultimate hypocrisy.
Even when the U.S. and Israel fired missiles and dropped bombs on the home of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his wife and other members of his family, killing more than 40 members of...
CovertAction: New Zealand’s Surveillance Relationship with Israel and Five Eyes Intelligence Sharing
Apr 11
At the March 4, 2026, Intelligence and Security Committee, Green Party national security and intelligence spokesperson Teanau Tuiono asked the heads of New Zealand’s two primary spy agencies to...
Amid escalating U.S. imperialism throughout Latin America, we present Noah Mazer's translation of Roque Dalton's "War Is the Continuation of Politics...," a poem-essay on the so-called "Football...
Is it nature or nurture? The post How Do Fish Know How to Build Nests? appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice The post The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame appeared first on Nautilus.
Bad dreams can cause big problems The post Why Kids Have Nightmares and How to Break the Cycle appeared first on Nautilus.
Artemis II was one small step in another giant leap The post What Comes After Artemis II appeared first on Nautilus.
Stephen Lester invites us to contemplate the relationship between the seemingly individual self and the world—including other seemingly individual selves—merely as different perspectives...
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. The post Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories...
Love is the law, love under will.
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?- by Noah CharneyRead on Aeon
How verbal humor arose and how it protects us The post Survival of the Wittiest appeared first on Nautilus.
Probing the mind’s eye The post The Biological Basis of Imagination appeared first on Nautilus.
Vaping might be just as bad The post How Nicotine Disrupts the “Lung-Brain Axis”—And Could Lead to Dementia appeared first on Nautilus.
[This article is part of CovertAction Magazine’s attempt to educate readers on the horrific history of the CIA.—Editors] On August 8, 1973, Kim Dae-jung, an opposition leader with the Korean...
Evolutionary time has forged changes in these shelled cephalopods The post The Deep Secrets of the Nautilus appeared first on Nautilus.
👍or 👎? The post This Is How People Who Use Emojis at Work Are Perceived appeared first on Nautilus.
Sasha Frere-Jones reviews the new edition of Palestinian writer and lawyer Sabri Jiyris's "The Foundations of Zionism" (translated by his daughter Fida). As Jiyris tells Frere-Jones: the book "is...
Matt Yglesias & the Legend of Big Muggy. Everyone’s favorite contrarian blogger searches for a mythical giant turtle in the Amazon, risking life and limb in his quest to bring sensible...
