Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 1/14/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 1/14/2008

January 13, 2008

Five issues, insights, and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.

The Moral Instinct
Steven Pinker lays out the science of the moral sense.
In the eye of the beholder?
The universe isn’t biased counterclockwise with respect to us, we’re biased with respect to it. (via Phil)
A new way of looking at race and conspicuous consumption.
We all react to the wealth of our neighbors.
Sheep!
Being a physicist is awesome for many reasons.
Study Counters Autism-Vaccination Link
Average Americans respond in the country’s “finest news source.”

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Ideas

Invoking the Magic of the Mind

Are secrets of the evolution of the mind to be found by imagining the ancestors of tool-wielding crows, or is such an approach strictly for the birds?
Culture

Photographer to the Stars

Famed space photographer David Malin talks about why his new compilation, Ancient Light, is in black and white and on the role of aesthetics in astronomy.
Innovation

Serious Fun

Kodu doesn’t have realistic graphics, huge explosions, or even a way to win. But it just might change the way we think about the world.