Nautilus

[:es]Gambling addiction stands out for its destructive power and pull. With substance problems, people can blame the chemical activity of drugs and argue that addiction occurs when repeated exposure physically alters the brain. But gambling causes life catastrophes that are at least as extreme—sometimes more—without any kind of foreign psychoactive chemical getting under the skin,…

[:es]Meet the philosopher who revived anti-realism.[:]

[:en]Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does.[:]

How is it possible to get something from nothing?

These are the few limits on our ability to know.

Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.

A dispatch from the future of extreme sports.

“When Aristotle wrote his Physics in the fourth century B.C., he wasn’t describing an academic discipline, but a mode of philosophy: a way of thinking about nature. You might imagine that’s just an archaic usage, but it’s not. When physicists speak today (as they often do) about the ‘physics’ of the problem, they mean something…

It sounds like science fiction: A citizenry genetically engineered to be democratic. It’s not implausible.