Nautis Project

I know the feeling: you’re standing around with your colleagues from work when they start talking about the latest developments in quantum physics and you’re left with nothing to say. I usually just quietly walk away and try not to draw too much attention to my inability to grasp complex concepts. Enter the new Seed [...]

The New York Times takes a look at the kissing controversies of the past week and plugs in some cool historical anthropology, too. From the Times, “The earliest written record of humans’ kissing appears in Vedic Sanskrit texts in India from around 1500 B.C., where certain passages refer to lovers setting mouth to mouth, [...]

From the magzine, Shift: A restlessness is brewing in science. Unexpected discoveries in many scientific disciplines are shaking previously held assumptions. One commonality among these discoveries is that observations once believed to be meaningless, or mere anomalies, are being reconsidered. In the process, new revelations are surfacing about the nature of reality. A few examples [...]

We all learned what “bullet-time” is from The Matrix: bullets that look like they are moving slowly through water – as if the air the bullet was moving through was some kind of liquid. What if air really is some kind of new liquid? What if the entire universe is made up this “liquid?” It [...]

Dr. Zach has put together a rather ruthless quiz for “true believers.” Here is one of the questions from the site:

We know that Christianity is true because the Gospel writers, inspired by God who can make no error, recorded the founding events. For example, on the first Easter morning, the visitors to the tomb were [...]

From the latest issue of American Scholar: “The world is not, on the whole, the place we have learned about in our school books. This point was hammered home one recent night as I crossed the causeway of the small island where I live. The pond was dark and still. Several strange glowing objects caught [...]