Why Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad

[March 18, 2018]( Dear Nautilus Reader, If you donate $10 to charity, will you feel better about cheating on a test later? That and more, in some of the most popular articles on Nautilus this week. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [Why Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad By Abbas Panjwani]( Oscar Wilde, the famed Irish essayist and playwright, had a gift, among other things, for counterintuitive aphorisms. In “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” an 1891 article, he wrote, “Charity creates a multitude of sins.” [Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking By Veronique Greenwood]( Julian Jaynes was living out of a couple of suitcases in a Princeton dorm in the early 1970s. He must have been an odd sight there among the undergraduates, some of whom knew him as a lecturer who taught psychology, holding forth in a deep baritone voice. [Paid Advertisement LEARN FROM A THREE-LEGGED TABLE]( A well-built square table distributes its weight equally on its four legs. Now, one of the legs is removed. Which leg supports more weight? [It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids By David P. Barash]( It is a bit of a stretch, but by no means impossible or even unlikely that a hybrid or a chimera combining a human being and a chimpanzee could be produced in a laboratory. [How Sex Is Like Your Thermostat By Jenny Morber]( Have you ever stopped to consider how sex is like a thermostat? Sex may not sit in a beige box on your wall (or it might, no judging) but there are some striking similarities. NautilusThink, Inc. 233 Broadway Suite 720New York, NY 10279 [Add us to your address book](//nautil.us6.list-manage.com/vcard?u=e299ad34aa80671ada72a819a&id=dc96ec7a9d) Copyright © 2018 NautilusThink, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list](   [update subscription preferences](