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Anybody you can name from ancient history is in your family tree. Plus: tiny jets on the sun power the colossal solar wind; behind the scenes with Clayton Dalton; and more.
[View in browser]( | [Become a member]( EDITORSâ CHOICE May 7, 2023 Did a friend forward this? [Subscribe here](. Good Morning! Hereâs some of the latest and most popular stories from Nautilusâand this weekâs Behind the Scenes with writer and emergency physician [Clayton Dalton]( [READ NAUTILUS]( [ASTRONOMY]( [Searching for Life Under a Methane Rain]( What future missions to Saturnâs moon Titan will reveal about the universe. BY PAUL M. SUTTER In 2034, a small craft will alight on a distant dune in a place called Shangri-la. [Continue reading â]( Experience the endless possibilities and deep human connections that science offers [SUBSCRIBE TODAY]( Popular This Week [PHYSICS]( [Tiny Jets on the Sun Power the Colossal Solar Wind]( A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sunâs corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system. 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It was one of the strangest things heâd ever seen, both weird and haunting. But what was stranger was how a line from George Eliotâs Middlemarchâwhich Daltonâs wife had recently come across and shared with himâcast the comet in a foreboding light: âThings will grow and ripen as if it were a comet year, and the public temper will soon get to a cometary heat.â [âThe Comet Year,â]( Daltonâs latest story in Nautilus, in part traces what people used to believe about the power of comets to affect our lives. Working on the frontlines of the pandemic as an ER physician in Boston, he thought it was incredible that the concept of a âcomet yearâ not only existed but seemed, given the global turmoil, eerily timely. A lover of history, he was instantly curious to uncover how people used to think about comets and their power to shape events, or predict misfortune. âIt turns out that comets had happened to appear and coincide with cataclysmic historical events going back thousands of years,â Dalton said. âPeople would say, âThe comet is sowing its wrath on us.â It was so surprising and disorienting to recognize that now, again, we are in a global crisis, and thereâs a comet in the sky. What are the odds of this?â [In our recent conversation](, Dalton discussed how people used comets as a way to cope with uncertainty in a crisis, and connected it to the social upheaval of the pandemic. âItâs this human tendency to tell a story to take control of events that seem chaotic,â Dalton said. âThat struck me as deeply relevant in the pandemic because we had this bizarre proliferation of crazy stories that people were latching on to, gravitating toward, to provide some sense of explanation or understanding of what was happening.â Dalton also talked about his exposure to people duped by COVID conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Some of them were his patients; one was a member of his extended family, a credentialed Ph.D. from Ivy League institutions who was a tenured professor at a major research university. âHe had a response for everything that I would say, even though it didnât make any sense if you had medical training or experience, which he did not,â Dalton said. âBut he was so confident, so self-assured. It was almost as if I could see in real-time the sort of safety and insulation that any story can provide in a chaotic and uncertain time. He had this sense that he knew what was really happening. It gave him a sense of security and stability, which I think is the appeal of this sort of narrative tendency that we have latent in ourselves.â [Watch here.]( âBrian Gallagher, associate editor [Get Your Story in Front of Industry Executives]( Attention writers! 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Sean Raymond wrote about how our sun will do Earth in much like that, setting off a chain of events that, in a 100 billion years, will leave the sun utterly alone, the planets [flinging into the abyss.]( Todayâs newsletter was written by Brian Gallagher BECOME A SUBSCRIBER [An Artisanal Candle and a Nautilus Membership, Half-off]( For the first time, a subscription to Nautilus at any membership tier is half-off along with a purchase of [The Mother Of All Growth](, our limited-edition, organic soy candle perfumed with a custom Nautilus-inspired scent of rich, loamy earth. [Join Today]( Thanks for reading. [Tell us](mailto:brian.gallagher@nautil.us) your thoughts on todayâs note. Plus, [browse our archive]( of past print issues, and inspire a friend to sign up for [the Nautilus newsletter](. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( Copyright © 2023 NautilusNext, All rights reserved.
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