Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/17/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/17/2006

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

A Good Science Friday
Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) is a mover and a shaker.
Fetal pain
A new paper concludes that it doesn’t exist. PZ explains why.
Physicists vs. biologists - cognitive smackdown
More physics chauvinism, this time from a geneticist!
Pope condemns geneticists ‘who play at being God’
Apparently those crazy geneticists like to “modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by God.” (via Hit and Run)
Mosaic
PZ is made of cephalopods!

Originally published April 16, 2006

Ideas

I Tried Almost Everything Else

John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
Ideas

Going, Going, Gone

The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
Ideas

Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare

Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.