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How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.

January 29, 2015

How the Obits Became My Muse

The unusual lives of a physicist and an aviator, in verse and song.

January 8, 2015

Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is?

Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee takes us into the neurology of creativity.

January 8, 2015

Rent Arlington Hall’s Brain

The implant would make him a brilliant pianist for 24 hours.

January 8, 2015

The Hit Book That Came From Mars

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.

January 5, 2015

The Hit Book That Came From Mars

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.

January 5, 2015

Art Is Long, Science Is Longer

My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.

December 17, 2014

Art Is Long, Science Is Longer

My years surveying trees in the Amazon taught me the forest is unknowable.

December 17, 2014

The New You

Introducing the Winter 2015 Nautilus Quarterly.

November 20, 2014