Browsing: Video

The conventional wisdom is all wrong. Countless parents and teachers have gotten it twisted. The BBC and PBS aired bogus explanations. Even textbooks have botched the story. The Earth’s rotation, and the Coriolis effect that results, do not cause water to circle the drain in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Nautilus Members […]

In 2009, more than 47 million computers in the U.S. were ready for “end-of-life management”—so hopelessly outmoded that no reasonable amount of refurbishment could redeem them. Market-driven innovation, thus far hewing to the demanding prediction of Moore’s law, means that every few months, the gadgets in our pockets and on our desktops are pushed closer […]

As recently as the late 80s, finding a planet orbiting another star seemed like the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, about as realistic as a diminutive alien riding a flying bicycle, or a sports car that worked as a time machine. Thanks to many smart astronomers using a new generation of powerful telescopes, we now know […]

Half a century of Siberian science, or why your furry best friend is really a developmentally stunted wolf.

Watching the master at work from the other side of the glass.

An irreverent, artful antidote to GPS appification, or what the NYC subway has to do with tsunamis.

Lessons on love from two illustrated birds, or why we never really grow up.

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

75 years of existential generosity, or what the ocean floor can teach us about existence, ego and impermanence.

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.