The Meme as Meme

[[newsletter20_header.png] September 2, 2018]( Dear Nautilus Reader, What makes things go viral on the Internet? That and more, in some of the most popular articles on Nautilus this week. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [14528_b751ea087892ebeca363034301f45c69.png]( [1252_a284df1155ec3e67286080500df36a9a.png]( [The Meme as Meme By Abby Rabinowitz On April 11, 2012, Zeddie Little appeared on Good Morning America, wearing the radiant, slightly perplexed smile of one enjoying instant fame.]( [15224_ebae5f81d1c4563ae8f8d07b9290324f.png]( [Why Lunar Ice Caps Don’t Change My Moon Base Design By Andy Weir When I wrote The Martian, the general belief was that Mars had very little water, and what supply it did have would be at the poles.](  [13917_03b0db8c971432a5e8d163897176a7cc.png]( [Paid Advertisement A Probability Paradox In which of these two scenarios is it more likely that Blake has a pair? Most people think they know the answer, but really don’t. Explore thousands of challenging probability problems just like this one on Brilliant.](  [15182_cd9dee20024dab5622a853bfb3f1bcfc.jpg]( [Why the Earth Has Fewer Species Than We Think By Peter Ward In 2012, I ran a trip sampling the nautilus populations along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef explicitly to see if nautiluses living on marine protected areas of the reef are as rare as from places where they are fished for their pretty shells (such as in the Philippines and Indonesia).]( [15225_7c72900e0b6e4108fdf991b696776f6c.png]( [Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time By Brian Gallagher In April, in the famous Faraday Theatre at the Royal Institution in London, Carlo Rovelli gave an hour-long lecture on the nature of time.](  [nwms_fb.png]( [nwms_twt.png]( [nwms_ing.png]( 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](