Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Nautilus

    People Are Discovering the Joy of Actually Talking on a Phone

    by Brian Gallagher Sep 23, 2020 3 minutes

    Researchers predicted that people would consistently underrate how much they might benefit from talking on the phone.Photograph by Stokkete / Shutterstock

    ’m one of the lucky ones. The onset of this pandemic has put a strain on the sanity of many people forced to isolate themselves from friends and family. If you live alone, or with roommates who you aren’t close with, you’ve likely had a harder time maintaining social connection compared to me, a husband and father. My in-laws, with whom my wife

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Nautilus

    Nautilus7 min read
    A Radical Rescue for Caribbean Reefs
    It’s an all-too-familiar headline: Coral reefs are in crisis. Indeed, in the past 50 years, roughly half of Earth’s coral reefs have died. Coral ecosystems are among the most biodiverse and valuable places on Earth, supporting upward of 860,000 speci
    Nautilus8 min read
    10 Brilliant Insights from Daniel Dennett
    Daniel Dennett, who died in April at the age of 82, was a towering figure in the philosophy of mind. Known for his staunch physicalist stance, he argued that minds, like bodies, are the product of evolution. He believed that we are, in a sense, machi
    Nautilus8 min read
    What Counts as Consciousness
    Some years ago, when he was still living in southern California, neuroscientist Christof Koch drank a bottle of Barolo wine while watching The Highlander, and then, at midnight, ran up to the summit of Mount Wilson, the 5,710-foot peak that looms ove

    Related Books & Audiobooks