Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 12/8/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 12/8/2006

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

Goethe and Color
Faust was nothing; this Goethe fellow had some pretty-darn-impressive insight into how we see color.
Explain it in 60 Seconds
Learn about quarks, the Standard Model, or CP violation in just a minute. (via 3QD)
That’s some tongue
Come on, glossophagine nectar bat, say “ahh.”
Video: Baby Pandas!
Cute Overload, eat your heart out. (via sciam)
Bill Hick, Science Prick, Houses on Fools
There are no bad questions, only bad children.

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Originally published December 7, 2006

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