How We Got From Doc Brown to Walter White

[December 22, 2016 Chapter Four: Re-Imagining Legends] [READ ISSUE] Dear Nautilus Reader, When did scientists on TV get so cool? That story, plus video games, a fantasy science comic, dystopian fiction, and an interview with experimental physicist Melissa Franklin, all this week on Nautilus. Best, The Nautilus Team [info@nautil.us] [How We Got From Doc Brown to Walter White The changing image of the TV scientist. By Eva Amsen] At the start of the fourth season of Breaking Bad, Walter White angrily watches an inexperienced meth cook make his trademark blue meth. [Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy? A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer. By Sydney Padua] Within these towering walls, the enormous intellects of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace labor unceasingly, their sole concern the good of the kingdom! [Video Games Are Changing the Hero This is what happens when we can occupy our heroes’ bodies. By Jon Irwin] Whenever the Kingdom of Hyrule has been in danger, a young boy named Link has risen to the challenge of saving the land from all manner of pixelated evil. [Spark of Science: Melissa Franklin Harvard’s first tenured woman physicist tells us about her heroes and her work. By Madeline Gressel] Experimentalists are the cowboys of physics,” says Melissa Franklin, an experimental particle physicist at Harvard University. [The Candle Burned Welcome to the future, where people read no more. By Mike Gelprin] Andrey Petrovich had given up all hope when the videophone rang. [READ ISSUE] NautilusThink, Inc. 233 Broadway Suite 720 New York, NY 10279 [Add us to your address book] Copyright © 2016 NautilusThink, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. [unsubscribe from this list]   [update subscription preferences]Â