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It has a surprising cerebral signature

The post Here’s What’s Happening in the Brain When You’re Improvising appeared first on Nautilus.

Our 3rd most-read article of 2025.

Originally published May 9, 2025.

Julie Owens, who bravely tugged on a tankini in mid-January in order to chaperone her twins to an indoor water park. After nearly swallowing a wet Band-Aid in the wave pool, Owens—in a show of tremendous valor—merely dry heaved thrice.

Hannah Robertson, who not only took her eleven-year-old to Sephora but also bought the pubescent child a sixty-five-dollar jade roller and a twenty-five-dollar toner, all without once rolling her eyes or mentioning the patriarchy.

The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.

The post CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says appeared first on The Intercept.

Engineers had been trying to solve this problem for 40 years

The post This Robot is Tinier than a Grain of Salt appeared first on Nautilus.

The war against Russia was a big bet on sanctions. The Russian military was always stronger than Ukraine, but the West believed that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy, enabling a win and hopefully weakening Russia so much that it could be broke up. Instead Russia’s economy has performed better since the war than it […]

The conflict between biographers and their living subjects can turn deadly.

Peter Capaldi and Doctor Who pressure was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday, again. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

As new left projects are gaining momentum — from Mamdani’s recent triumph to the emergence of a new left party in Britain — it is worth revisiting Europe’s ‘left moment’ of the 2010s. A decade ago, expectations were high. Although the SYRIZA government had just capitulated to the Troika, hopes still rested on other Southern […]

The lobbying group is taking a quieter approach this midterms cycle, but it’s still seeking to keep Congress in Israel’s pocket.

The post AIPAC Is Retreating From Endorsements and Election Spending. It Won’t Give Up Its Influence. appeared first on The Intercept.

If you’re looking for your genetic origin story, your DNA will only take you so far.

The post Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story appeared first on Nautilus.

Traditionally, philosophers have focused mostly on the logical template of inference. The paradigm-case has been deductive inference, which is topic-neutral and context-insensitive. The study of deductive rules has engendered the search for the Holy Grail: syntactic and topic-neutral accounts of all prima facie reasonable inferential rules. The search has hoped to find rules that are […]

Ever get an uncomfortable feeling that the state is closing in on you? Even if you’re not one of the almost 3,000 people arrested on possible terrorism charges for demonstrating peacefully in favour of peace and against genocide, you may be among the increasing number of those on the left who have a sense that […]

Our own emotions may play a major role when gauging Fido’s feelings

The post You Might Be Misreading Your Dog appeared first on Nautilus.

From new releases to new translations, everything worth adding to your TBR pile next year.

Picturing positive encounters can make you like a person more

The post Imagine Your Way to a Better Relationship appeared first on Nautilus.

Our 8th most-read article of 2025.

Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make them feel?

I know, I know—all you did was share your chili recipe, but did you consider the people who don’t like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don’t know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?

Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the “best chili recipe in the world.” Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel? How would you feel if someone said your chili wasn’t the best they’d ever had?

I read a post on one of the social media platforms written by a professor who was sharing his experience with giving away ten percent of his income, after he signed the “Ten percent giving pledge” many years ago. In deciding what or whom to give to, those who take the ten-percent-pledge often follow the […]

US President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 doing up the White House with gold bling. He’s the latest in a long line of leaders to use buildings for power.

“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”

The post Did Trump Just Confess to Attacking Venezuela? appeared first on The Intercept.

There’s a constant trope on the right that the best way to win is to have more kids because eventually you’ll outnumber your enemies? Seems like it makes sense. It is part of why Christianity won in the Roman Empire: they forbade anal and oral sex and contraceptives (yes, they had clumsy contraceptives back then) […]

Big Finish has released a new Doctor Who short story audiobook, Doctor Who Short Trips: The Wednesday That Wasn't, that's free for everyone.

“The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.”

The post These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up. appeared first on The Intercept.