Paternal warmth before the age of 1 can set the tone for the family and influence physical health years later The post How Being a Good Dad Makes for Healthier Children appeared first on Nautilus.
Freddie deBoer: The Buffalo Bills Are a Mess, But Sean McDermott's Firing Was Totally Justifiable
Jan 21
a defensive guru whose defense collapses every postseason lives on borrowed time
CovertAction: What Did Germans Know About the Holocaust? What Do We Know About the Gaza Genocide?
Jan 21
Some eight decades after the end of World War II and the trial of the Nazis before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” today known...
Granta: The Cost of Writing
Jan 21
‘Police raids have become a method of stripping journalists of the tools of their craft.’ Tariq Mir on journalism in Kashmir. The post The Cost of Writing appeared first on Granta.
The Public Domain Review: Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Jan 21
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores...
Researchers recorded the neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the coast of Tanzania. The post How Animals Build a Sense of Direction first appeared on...
For the terminally online, politics à la carte.
Most people live as though death is undesirable. But would immortality be a blessing – or an interminable curse?- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
A massive Polar Vortex disruption digs deep into the heart of the United States this Friday, triggering a Winter Storm Fern. More than 150 million … The post Winter Storm Fern: Ice, Snow,...
Understanding their intricate past could be key to future treatments for pups The post Heartworms Might Be Much More Ancient Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
Issue 65 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our November and December 2025 online issues, and a special Food section. It includes contributions from animal...
The privacy risks of always-listening voice control systems—and how to protect against them The post Your Voice Gives Away Valuable Personal Information appeared first on Nautilus.
Nicaragua remains in the crosshairs of U.S. regime-change efforts, along with Cuba and Venezuela, as President Donald Trump boasts of his administration’s goal to remove “Marxists” from...
It’s a resonating chamber for drumming with its ribs The post This Fish Really Does Need a Hole in Its Head appeared first on Nautilus.
A neurologist reckons with recent revelations about the celebrated doctor and author The post The Confabulations of Oliver Sacks appeared first on Nautilus.
Humans aren’t the only mammal species with aging populations The post Your Favorite Zoo Animals Are Getting Old appeared first on Nautilus.
New research shows the red planet plays an outsized role in Earth’s climate The post Tiny Mars has a Big Impact on Our Climate appeared first on Nautilus.
Mathematical Unification of Social Control and Economic Opacity
The Baffler: Gimme More
Jan 20
Is the energy transition a hoax?
Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.
The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface. The post Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle first appeared on Quanta...
A formal framework showing how mirror symmetry in control systems generates both Landian xenotechnics and Fisherian hauntologies as emergent properties.
The life of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose illuminates how scientific genius can emerge from the most unexpected quarters- by Somaditya (Soma) BanerjeeRead on Aeon
In early November, the Canadian government released its 2025 budget, which detailed plans to increase military spending by $84 billion over the next five years—the largest military expansion in...
Uncle Ted was right about this one
Upending Gary Larson’s premise that cows are too daft to use tools The post The “Far Side” Had It All Wrong—Cows Really Can Use Sophisticated Tools appeared first on Nautilus.
From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power- by Sean IrvingRead on Aeon
A software tool implementing the Gambetta-Nicomachus detection framework for automated analysis of cryptocurrency projects. Scans for capital flow asymmetries, governance-control gaps, and narrative-i
Severe Weather: Mediterranean Faces Dangerous High Flood Risk as a Deep Low Drives Extreme Rainfall
Jan 19
A potentially dangerous heavy rainfall event with a high flooding risk will evolve across parts of southern Europe and the Mediterranean this week, associated with persistent … The post...
On Coming to NothingCassandra Seltman “God’s transcendence is, for me, flight from my object.” – Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche“[T]o psychologists, mourning is a great riddle [. . . .]...
When All That’s Left Is to Refuse to Be Savednadia bou ali In the most complex moments of reflection on war and death, aggressivity and narcissism, Freud often resorted to the crucial concept of...
A mathematical bullshit detector that catches inconsistencies by comparing information with its own reflection.
