Author: Frederick Stankus

Human nature is one of those aspects of the world that can seem inexplicable, too varied and complicated to be pinned down by overarching explanations. On the one hand our species includes people like Garrett O’Hanlon, who was standing on a Manhattan subway platform one recent night when someone passed out onto the tracks right […]

Welcome to Nautilus’ blog, “Facts So Romantic”! The name, if you didn’t see the note on the blog’s homepage, refers to a quote from Jules Verne: “Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” (Verne also helped name the magazine itself; the amazingly hi-tech submarine from 20,000 Leagues […]

As bodies meld with machines, are we leaving ourselves behind?

Insights on identity and the aberrations of authority from the most notorious psychology experiment ever conducted.

Remarkable, rare vintage lantern slides of life in Egypt in the turn of the 20th century.

165 international musicians and composers visualize sheet music in a remarkable showcase of new-age notation.

Noma Bar’s brilliant negative space illustrations comment on pressing sociopolitical issues with provocative subtlety.

What single Chinese men have to do with evolution and insults from Virginia Woolf.

“In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen.”