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| 2015 | | Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (nautil.us) |
| 571 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments |
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| 2013 | | Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (nautil.us) |
| 417 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (nautil.us) |
| 359 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2016 | | What does any of this have to do with physics? (nautil.us) |
| 344 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2014 | | A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (nautil.us) |
| 278 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2014 | | I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (nautil.us) |
| 262 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2016 | | Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is Matter Conscious? (nautil.us) |
| 215 points | 5 years ago with 266 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (nautil.us) |
| 208 points | 4 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Your Brain Decides Without You (nautil.us) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2015 | | What I Learned from Losing $200M (nautil.us) |
| 178 points | 7 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (nautil.us) |
| 160 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2016 | | Learning Chess at 40 (nautil.us) |
| 159 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2017 | | Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (nautil.us) |
| 152 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2018 | | Perceptual Illusions (nautil.us) |
| 150 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (nautil.us) |
| 141 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2015 | | PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (nautil.us) |
| 137 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (nautil.us) |
| 136 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2015 | | A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us) |
| 135 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2017 | | Against Willpower (nautil.us) |
| 132 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2015 | | The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us) |
| 129 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (nautil.us) |
| 119 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2016 | | Learning Chess at 40 (nautil.us) |
| 117 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones (nautil.us) |
| 117 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | Impossible Mathematics of the Real World (nautil.us) |
| 116 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me (nautil.us) |
| 114 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2013 | | Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (nautil.us) |
| 113 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (nautil.us) |
| 109 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ways to Lie with Charts (nautil.us) |
| 109 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (nautil.us) |
| 109 points | 8 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2015 | | How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (nautil.us) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2014 | | Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system (nautil.us) |
| 93 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2014 | | Stanislaw Lem’s Futurism (nautil.us) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (nautil.us) |
| 91 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2017 | | Raising the American Weakling (nautil.us) |
| 87 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Strange Persistence of First Languages (nautil.us) |
| 86 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2014 | | To Predict Turbulence, Count the Puffs (nautil.us) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2016 | | Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real (nautil.us) |
| 84 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2015 | | Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (nautil.us) |
| 83 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2014 | | What Do Animals See in a Mirror? (nautil.us) |
| 74 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (nautil.us) |
| 72 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2015 | | The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (nautil.us) |
| 70 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us about how we think (nautil.us) |
| 69 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2014 | | When Good Waves Go Rogue (nautil.us) |
| 68 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2015 | | The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn (nautil.us) |
| 67 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2013 | | Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Lethal (nautil.us) |
| 66 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2014 | | Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time (nautil.us) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Trouble with Theories of Everything (nautil.us) |
| 63 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2017 | | Overcoming Us vs. Them (nautil.us) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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