This Sunday, read the latest and most popular stories from Nautilus |
What a trippy gravitational phenomenon can tell us about the universe. |
Not long ago, Pieter van Dokkum received a delightful invitation.
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The Nearness of You Concert to Benefit Stem Cell Research |
On Tuesday, February 6th Columbia University Irving Medical Center is holding The Nearness of You Concert, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. Join host Padma Lakshmi and artists Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Christopher Cross, and more for an evening of entertainment in support of MDS-Leukemia stem cell research. Get your tickets now. |
WE ARE CURIOUS TO KNOW... |
Can you recommend a good logical puzzle or riddle? |
Our minds are being coerced in covert ways. |
BY KATHERINE HARMON COURAGE
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To break the tape loop in your head, talk to yourself as another person. |
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More of the latest from Nautilus |
There are five times as many beetle species as fish, reptile, bird, amphibian, and mammal species combined. |
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Scientists can now study species in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean. |
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Internal combustion engines are extremely adaptable, as this Nautilus story reports, and classic cars come in all shapes and sizes. If you’re interested in car auctions, market trends, or just curious about the cars of yesteryear, sign up for The Daily Vroom newsletter for free! |
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From The Porthole—short sharp looks at science |
What we know about a mysterious condition called visual snow. |
Flickering dots and smudges of light everywhere, fuzz and static blanketing my visual field, blurring the edges of my reality.
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Your free story this Sunday! |
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random. |
While a doctoral student at Princeton University in 1957, studying under a founder of theoretical computer science, Raymond Smullyan would occasionally visit New York City.
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Watch the Creative Sparks Fly |
Two weeks ago global leaders in politics, academia, and business gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to share their vision for a better world. At the 2022 World Economic Forum, we brought together two brilliant minds from vastly different fields to share their own ideas—world-class cellist Yo-Yo Ma and CERN Director Fabiola Gianotti. In a conversation recorded for our series The Intersection, Ma and Gianotti shared their thoughts on the hybridity between music and science, the search for truth, and the nature of creativity itself.
Nautilus members get a front-row seat to their discussion—it’s cheaper than airfare to Davos! |
P.S. The 19th-century mathematician and writer Lewis Carroll, author of the children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was born yesterday, Jan. 27th, in 1832. Carroll was an avid “puzzler”—a maker and solver of logical games. It’s an analytical hobby that another sharp mind, the late Raymond Smullyan, later took up. The theoretical computer scientist once devised what came to be called the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. Can you solve it? I for one, dear reader, could not. Though, as I wrote, the solution turned out to be “one of the best lessons in logic and truth I have ever received.” |
Today’s newsletter was written by Brian Gallagher |
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