Why We Keep Playing the Lottery

[[newsletter20_header.png] September 23, 2018]( Dear Nautilus Reader, It’s nearly impossible to win the lottery. So why do we persist in trying? That and more, in some of the most popular articles on Nautilus this week. Best, The Nautilus Team info@nautil.us [14528_b751ea087892ebeca363034301f45c69.png]( [4317_d290dc6cabaffa37f5473eb33611607e.png]( [Why We Keep Playing the Lottery By Adam Piore To grasp how unlikely it was for Gloria C. MacKenzie, an 84-year-old Florida widow, to have won the $590 million Powerball lottery, Robert Williams, a professor of health sciences at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, offers this scenario: head down to your local convenience store, slap $2 on the counter, and fill out a six-numbered Powerball ticket.]( [14305_d0a17b281c3e4eaef6718d891e38cb42.png]( [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.](  [15288_a754fc1765a45a6bc1a034140afd0669.png]( [Nautilus Partner Skyscraper In 1914, when Chicago’s skyscrapers and Chicago’s poets were defining modernist reach and audacity, Carl Sandburg asserted that buildings had a “soul.”](  [15264_ce738adf821b780cfcde4100e633e51a.png]( [Geology Makes You Time-Literate By Marcia Bjornerud As a geologist and professor I speak and write rather cavalierly about eras and eons.]( [15240_0c1afc055393604da9a0074c7a02d80e.jpg]( [The End of Time By Carlo Rovelli This is the image of time that is familiar to us: something that flows uniformly and equally throughout the universe, in the course of which all things happen.](  [nwms_fb.png]( [nwms_twt.png]( [nwms_ing.png]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( NautilusThink, Inc. · 233 Broadway · Suite 720 · New York, NY 10279 · USA