Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/28/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/28/2006

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

The Carbon Quiz
How much do you put out?
Physics Funding Fundamentalism
Chad takes on an NAS panel that said the only thing that can save domestic physics is an enormous particle accelerator.
Reader mail: Can viruses cause tumor shrinkage?
A freaky episode of House had something to it.
hexanoic acid smells like goats
It does! It really does! Check out the graph of smelly acids. (via UP)
How to destroy the Earth
And Bill Dembski was worried about Pianka. The mission of this site is “by any means necessary, to change the Earth into something other than a planet.” They’ve got some great ideas. (via slog)

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Originally published April 27, 2006

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