Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 11/3/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 11/3/2008

Political at birth, safeguarding the production of medicine abroad, sustainable prisons, Rosanne Cash's affinity for neuroscience...

The Safety Gap
We take for granted China’s production of everyday goods, but with the recent health scare in food can we really trust them to make our medicine?
Energy Hogs: Prisons Now Recycle, Grow Own Food
If the prison system can do it, why can’t we?
Art Teams With Science to Explain It All to You
Celebrities of the art and music world come together to celebrate neuroscience’s foray into the understanding of sensation.
Born to Party
New research shows our basic political attitudes may be with us at birth.
Pig Fights Lion
Need we say more?

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Originally published November 3, 2008

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