Articles from 02/2009
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Saved by Science
Artist Justine Cooper's large-format photographs document the intersection of science, curation, and the endurance of human curiosity.
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Crowdsourcing the Genome
New ways of thinking about research emerge in the age of user-generated genetics.
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Seeing Antlers, Feeling Dendrites
Christopher Reiger’s Synesthesia #1, the fluidity of perception, and how art can express phenomena in a way data alone cannot.
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The Amazing Race
The Linguists depicts an around-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
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Voodoo That Scientists Do
When findings are debated online, as with a yet to be released paper that calls out the field of social neuroscience, who wins?
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Getting Past the Pie Chart
Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century.
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Excitement and Caution at AAAS
Thousands gather in Chicago for the world's largest scientific conference.
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Neri Oxman: Materialecology
The artist looks to biology for inspiration when producing works that mimic forms found in nature.
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The Essential Parallel Between Science and Democracy
The sound conduct of science and the sound conduct of democracy both depend on the same shared values.
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A Hormone to Remember
Oxytocin emerges as a key player in our facility for social memory.
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Beyond a Theory of Everything
On the very large and very small versus the very, very complex.
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Nepal: Wireless in the Mountains
A home WiFi kit and a solar-powered relay station transform healthcare and education for a remote village in western Nepal.
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Thinking Meta
is more than a matter of “gut feeling” — it’s the willingness to reflect on the decision-making process itself.
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Holdren Vows to Maintain the Integrity of Science
President Barack Obama's director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy faces limited criticism at confirmation hearing.
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Adapting to a New Economy
An evolutionary perspective on economics can explain how we got into this current mess, and how we might find our way out.
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Photo Essay: Darwin Slept Here
A twentysomething adventurer retraces the voyage of the Beagle, recapturing a young Darwin, and the growing pains of a continent.
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The Awe of Natural History Collections
Visiting the hidden side of natural history museums, where the vast collections of scientific specimens are kept.
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Be Fruitful and Multiply
Agriculture and civilization have sped up the evolution of humanity. From this simple thesis grows an argument aimed at the heart of how we think about history.
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Darwin and the Clergyman
Letters between Charles Darwin and the vicar of Downe document a close friendship, and a surprising mutual interest in preserving the church.
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Darwin 200
Seed celebrates the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Into the Landscape of Genomic Evolution
How the tools of genetic sequencing are changing the way we study the origins and development of life.
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Survival of the Viral
Studying genetic "mistakes," like endogenous retroviruses, would have led us to a theory of evolution, even if Charles Darwin had not.
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Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds
A video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute.
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Science As Lens
Science has shaped our world—now it will change the way we see it. A reflection on the past and future role of this magazine in both documenting this transformation and catalyzing it.
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Core Principles
Both science and design—forward motors, providers of perspective, guardians of beauty and truth—are essential to progress.
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Scientific Truth in the Age of Wikipedia
Does the radical egalitarianism of the wiki undermine traditional notions of scientific authority and consensus?
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Greg Lynn: New City
Is a sphere the optimal shape for our world? If physical laws were no longer a concern, how would we mold the Earth to better suit our global economy?
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Bridging the Gulf
Science and technology parks could replace Arab oil with Arab IP as the region's economic driver.
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Kerry: US Will Have Cap & Trade by End of the Year
At sustainability conference, global leaders wonder where the investments will come from to build a green economy.
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Breaking the Legacy
New partnerships could represent a tipping point in developing African science.
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Ecology of Finance
A growing cadre of biologists argues that ecosystem analysis of the world economy might stave off a repeat of 2008's financial catastrophe.
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Science Diplomacy for the 21st Century
On being a citizen of a world without borders or boundaries.
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Report From Dubai
Last November, the World Economic Forum convened thought leaders and heads of industry to discuss the state of the world. Seed followed up to ask where we go from here.
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Poor Decision Making
How behavioral economics can help change the fight against poverty.
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Is MIT Obsolete?
On the future of invention.
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From Simulation to Solution
How new technologies can help to finally rid the world of malaria.
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Crime and Causality Loops
Getting to the root of corruption in Colombia and Mexico.
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Urban Paradox
Why the future of humanity and the long-term sustainability of the planet are inextricably linked to the fate of our cities.
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Safeguarding Biology
Can biotechnology safely reverse the course of our deteriorating biosphere?
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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.
