The jet stream is one of Earth’s defining features—but it wasn’t easy to find.
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.
The post Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse In Some Places? appeared first on Nautilus.
The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”.
In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably economic value), but by values, or “our (Australian) values”.
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After 53 years in captivity, she has a chance at a better life.
The post The Story of a Lonely Orca appeared first on Nautilus.
Medicine uses race to try to provide more equitable care. But that prescription likely does more harm.
The post Is There Any Place for Race in Medicine? appeared first on Nautilus.
Play and art engage all of our senses and enhance attention.
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One question for Luis Ciria, a neuroscientist at the University of Granada.
The post Exercise Is Great for Our Brains, Too, Right? appeared first on Nautilus.
As groups like the Finance and Society Network make clear, banking and finance are too important to be left to financial economists and industry lobbyists. We all need to take some interest in what the powerful do and how they do it. These days this also extends to the huge ecosystem of alternative finance, fintech and decentralised finance (DeFi). Most people’s experience of this at the moment probably extends little further than lurid headlines trumpeting the huge sums made and lost (currently mainly lost) in cryptocurrency. There is, however, a lot more at stake than one might at first think.
Like any focus of fevered speculative activity, cryptocurrency has attracted its fair share of hyperbole and misinformation. In a recent paper in Cambridge Journal of Economics I try to look past this and consider the multiple issues involved.
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How transcendent feelings arise from the forces of Darwinian natural selection.
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