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BY Michael Segal 2 The Smaller the Theater, the Faster the Music Composer Philip Glass talks time with painter Fredericka Foster. BY Philip Glass & Fredericka Foster 3 What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising The neurology of flow states. BY Heather Berlin 4 A New View of Time Introducing the Nautilus Time Project. BY Beth Jacobs & Lee Smolin 5 She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not The science of waiting in modern courtship. BY Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg 6 When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion Is there more to our experience of time than the foibles of memory? BY Ivan Amato 1 Why Living in a Poor Neighborhood Can Change Your Biology The sheer stress of an environment contributes to obesity and diabetes. BY Andrew Curry 2 Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble? John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud. BY Michael Segal 3 The Smaller the Theater, the Faster the Music Composer Philip Glass talks time with painter Fredericka Foster. BY Philip Glass & Fredericka Foster 4 What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising The neurology of flow states. BY Heather Berlin 5 When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion Is there more to our experience of time than the foibles of memory? BY Ivan Amato 6 We Need to Save Ignorance From AI In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know? BY Christina Leuker & Wouter van den Bos Facts So Romantic Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture. So what is it saying? See All Blog Posts Numbers How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, biologists Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne foretold a Malthusian future of famine and disease if humanity failed to control its growth. The… Read More Culture 3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists Forged in metal or chiseled in stone, statues almost always depict dead men. A recent analysis of 12 major American cities turned up only six physical representations of women. Only one… Read More Ideas This Vision Experiment Resolved a Centuries-Old Philosophical Debate Imagine you are looking at a manhole cover a few paces away on the street. It looks circular, but this is because of some impressive perceptual machinery in your mind. The pattern of light… Read More Culture The Anonymous Culture Cops of the Internet Giant tech companies and governments largely determine what content is and isn’t allowed online, and their decisions impact billions of people: 55 percent of internet users worldwide… Read More -- Listen to Nautilus NARRATED VERSIONS OF OUR STORIES All Audio Articles Culture Just Imagining a Workout Can Make You Stronger By Jim Davies Ideas The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster By Gillen D'Arcy Wood Biology Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual? By Brandon Keim Nautilus Prime Get the full Nautilus digital experience. 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