Welcome to "Healthy Communication"—the New Nautilus Issue

[View this email in your browser]( [Nautilus logo]( Thursday, July 15, 2021 Chapter One: Progress Dear Nautilus Reader, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder tells Nautilus this week, “I feel like it’s part of my profession as a scientist to pass on knowledge.” And Hossenfelder, in her writing and on her YouTube channel, “[Science without the gobbledygook](,” does so wonderfully, abjuring insular terminology for clear and logical explanations, ones that connect with the mind, heart, and funny bone. Healthy communication is also what’s needed to relieve people of their fears and uncertainties over the COVID-19 vaccine. Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein leads a discussion on Nautilus with Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Science, and Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC and currently president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of the Global Health Organization Vital Strategies. The trio of scientists are sympathetic to people who have legitimate concerns over the vaccine and offer a host of supple insights into how public health agencies can reach the holdouts and get them to appreciate “the plain truth that vaccines against COVID are astonishingly effective and extremely safe,” says Frieden. Also this week, astrophysicist and author and Mario Livio reaffirms our appreciation of Galileo by telling us how the great astronomer was also science’s first great advocate for popular science. Galileo showed, fearlessly, that the only way to counter superstition and suppression was communicating the truth about science and what it reveals about ourselves and nature. Science writer Lina Zeldovich puts her skills to work to explain how scientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are learning to outsmart evolution and aid the development of drugs that will not fall resistant to the clever mutations of germs. And finally, we revisit our article by neuroscientist and writer Kelly Clancy on the how the power of stories can redirect our nervous system to bypass disease. [READ ISSUE]( [Talking Pop Science with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder]( [Brian Gallager]( [“Science without the gobbledygook.” That’s the name, and promise, of Sabine Hossenfelder’s YouTube show.]( PAID ADVERTISEMENT [Join the 5 Letter]( for inspiring stories, bold ideas and new perspectives on change, directly in your inbox. 5 is an impact media foundation striving to create a more sustainable future through the power of many. [Here’s the Right Story for Vaccine Holdouts]( [Two public health experts explain how to cut through the noise about COVID-19 vaccines.]( [Stuart Firestein]( [Blaise Pascal was a renowned French polymath of the 17th century, scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, and later in life a theologian.]( [How to Outwit Evolution]( [We can defeat superbugs by staying one step ahead of them.]( [Lina Zeldovich]( [There’s a silent epidemic slowly brewing around the globe. It hasn’t claimed as many lives as COVID-19, but if it gets out of control, it will likely prove even deadlier.]( BECOME A SUBSCRIBER Subscribe to Nautilus! We are a magazine of scientific ideas that matter. The ideas matter because they clarify nature. And that goes for our own nature, too. Join a community of curious readers exploring scientific subjects in profound, unexpected ways. [Subscribe Today!]( [Galileo the Science Publicist]( [Scientists putting their lives on the line can take heart from a great astronomer.]( [Mario Livio]( [There’s an old belief that truth will always overcome error. Alas, history tells us something different.]( [How to Unlearn a Disease]( [Medicine’s latest cure is forgetting you’re sick.]( [Kelly Clancy]( [My father, a neurologist, once had a patient who was tormented, in the most visceral sense, by a poem.]( [READ ISSUE]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Web Site]( Copyright © 2021 NautilusNext, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from [nautil.us](. Our mailing address is: NautilusNext 360 W 36th Street, 7S, New York, NY 10018 Don't want to hear from us anymore? [Click here to unsubscribe.](