Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 3/22/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 3/22/2006

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

“Religious belief itself is an adaptation” Salon interviews sociobiology founder E.O. Wilson
On the Origins of Methodological Naturalism Hint: It didn’t come from godless Yankees.
Bird flu God’s wrath: rabbi Pat Robertson apparently doesn’t have a monopoly on blaming disasters on liberals.
Brain Gym exercises do pupils no favours The Orac of the UK is all over freaky pseudoscience in schools.
Meet Tasty, The Stuffed Kiwa Hirsuta Give someone you love a beautiful plush, blind, furry lobster today!

Originally published March 21, 2006

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