Author: Frederick Stankus

Lee Smolin argues that time is more fundamental than physical laws.

Understanding the impermanence of everything—including ourselves.

This month Nautilus is tackling the idea of home—what it is, what it means to us, and how we find our way there. Along the way, we’re discovering that home is an essential idea for humans, the subject of countless songs, poems, movies, paintings, novels, and idioms. In English, home is where the heart is. There’s […]

Fairy Ring #3Collage by Amy Ross (with permission) The front lawn is an American symbol of middle-class status and respectability. We trim ours with ride-on mowers, condition them with nitrogen, and hydrate them with elaborate sprinklers, largely because they represent us to everyone driving by. Ironically, it’s due to this energetic maintenance that one pest […]

Does the Fame Virus plague our youth, and is multimedia to blame?

How your brain twists together emotion and place.

It matters only that we think, not how we think.

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 How well do we know the countries we call home? It seems obvious that travel and study would improve a person’s knowledge of geography. But could attitudes […]

A reflection on Jacob Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man.”

Cadaverine and putrescine are the chemicals responsible for the dead-flesh stench.