Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 2/15/2007 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 2/15/2007

February 14, 2007

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

Love in the Laboratory
Happy post-Valentine’s Day! Let’s bring all of yesterday’s mushy rhetoric into the lab, where it belongs.
Smart Guys Date in Parallel
If the first item didn’t rid you of those romantic feelings, maybe you just need to think about relationships as if they were circuits. (via boing boing)
Gallery: Animal Amour
Oh, fine. Enjoy some cute animal courtship.
Two gorgeous images
Destruction can be beautiful.
No Dembski, No Cry
It may not be the catchiest reggae tune of all time, but it sure makes the lead figures in the Dover trial seem cool.

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Innovation

Let There Be Light

Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
Ideas

Into the Uncanny Valley

New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
World

Signs from Above

The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.