Claire Cameron
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New York, NY, United States
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Cracking Avatar’s Language Codes
One hot Thursday in July of 2013, I met a gangly young man at Washington D.C.’s Union Station. Energetic and slightly nervous, he… → Read More
Love Can Make You Smarter
Love is supposed to make you stupid. We’re used to seeing the lover as a mooning fool, blind to his lover’s faults and the goings-on… → Read More
How a Genius Is Different from a Really Smart Person
The most intelligent two percent of people in the world. These are the people who qualify for membership in Mensa, an exclusive international… → Read More
5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday.Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers… → Read More
How This Revolutionary Old Zoo Was Redesigned for the 21st Century
At the height of his powers in 15th century Florence, Lorenzo de Medici managed to secure a magnificent giraffe for his menagerie.… → Read More
How the Languages in Game of Thrones, Defiance, and Thor Were Created
A still from the television show Defiance, showing a pair of Irathients, an alien race. Their language, Irathient, was created by… → Read More
Love Can Make You Smarter
Elsa Einstein and her husband, Albert, on the SS Rotterdam in New York. (1921)WikicommonsLove is supposed to make you stupid. We’re… → Read More
6 Pieces of Art That Open Minds—and Get Stuff Done
Jason deCaires Taylor’s The Silent Evolution (2012), part of MUSA, the Museo Subacuatico de Arte (Underwater Art Museum).Jason… → Read More
5 Ways NASA Enabled Today’s Super Bowl
The shiny silver cloaks athletes now don to keep warm on the sidelines are actually aluminized mylar, which NASA’s Echo I, the agency’s… → Read More
Personal Space Is a Fear Response
Rommel Canlas/ShutterstockEdward Hall, an American anthropologist, first defined “personal space” in the mid-1900s, when he noticed… → Read More
Can We Trace the History of Human Migration Through Our Guts?
Eduard Egarter-Vigl (L) and Albert Zink (R) taking a sample from the Iceman in November 2010.EURAC/Marion LafoglerIn 1991, two German… → Read More
Inside the Mind of a Caricaturist
The “Caricature Generator” is a computer program that takes an image of a person’s face, finds its differences as compared to… → Read More
What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?
Silence:Phillips participates in an aphasia communication workshop in Speechless, a documentary by Guillermo F. Flórez that profiles… → Read More
Five Veteran Scientists Tell Us What Most Surprised Them
Turn back the clock to 1965. Science appeared to be marching forward at an unrelenting pace. Biochemists had cracked the genetic code… → Read More
Why The World Isn’t As It Seems
Take a close look at the floor tiles in the scene below. First, focus your attention on the tile directly below the potted plant,… → Read More
How Pantone Colors Your World
You can wear them as high-fashion jewelry, eat them in marshmallow form, and wrap your packages in duct tape branded with their likeness.… → Read More
How Pantone Colors Your World
You can wear them as high-fashion jewelry, eat them in marshmallow form, and wrap your packages in duct tape branded with their likeness.… → Read More
How Much Science Is In The Constitution?
Welcome to the Nautilus science news quiz! This week, we are testing your knowledge of science and the United States Constitution, ask if you can tell which Benjamin Franklin invention is a fake, and find → Read More
The Nautilus Weekly Science News Quiz
Think you’ve got what it takes to ace our science news quiz? This week, we want you to tell us why Saharan silver ants are so special, how baboons mimic the political process, and more. Go on, test yourself. NB. If you are interested in seeing more of Science Friday’s octopus episode, please follow this link. → Read More
The Nautilus Weekly Science News Quiz III
Welcome to the weekly Nautilus science news quiz! This week, we test your turtle sex knowledge and ask you to weigh in on a dinosaur’s… → Read More