Articles from 01/2009
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Illuminated Manuscripts
Drew Berry makes visually stunning and painstakingly accurate depictions of complex life processes not usually exposed to the human eye.
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Science’s Rightful Place
The scientific community responds to Seed's Rightful Place initiative.
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2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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The True 21st Century Begins
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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Blogging the Origin
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter by chapter.
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Field Museum
Constructing art and science on a frozen Minnesota lake.
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The Prophetic Brain
The commonly held belief that information from the outside world impinges upon our brains through our senses to cause perception and then action now appears to be false.
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Obama: “Rightful Place” for Science
In his inaugural speech, President Barack Obama highlights his vision for science.
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All Together Now
Is Big Science forging a pan-European identity?
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The Holdren Factor
Barack Obama's science adviser plans to make science a factor in White House decisions.
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Nepal: Save the Dolphin!
Misguided hunting, pesticide fishing, and a network of dams threaten the future of a resident mammal in the Ganges.
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Letter to Obama
Forty-nine American Nobel laureates and other distinguished American scientists call the president's attention to the importance of increasing funding for scientific research.
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Painting and the Pleistocene
The Art Instinct author Denis Dutton on the arts as evolutionary adaptations.
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Seeing in the Dark
A blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.
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Blogging the Origin
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter by chapter.
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The Science Accomplishments of President George W. Bush
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After the Storm
An exclusive and revealing post mortem with President Bush's point man on science, John Marburger.
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Seed State of Science: Publishing
How is scientific information distributed? What is the best way to share, and spread, knowledge?
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The Romance of Objects
What are the roles of objects in the development of young minds and in the creative lives of scientists?
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Chaos Begets Chaos
A new study supports the controversial claim that people can be morally swayed by the state of their surroundings.
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Nepal: Laptop School
Saving a generation of young students with creative thinking, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a little green computer.
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Fluid Diplomacy
A looming water war in Central Asia could mean disaster for the region and beyond.
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Pole Position
China's expanding scientific soft power has the ability to reshape the flow of money, technology, and talent in the region.
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Extending Darwinism
Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA?
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Research at Badwater
The most extreme running race in the world attracts researchers looking for physiological data that can't, or shouldn't, be reproduced.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
