Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/3/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/3/2006

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

Science - Significant Warming of the Antarctic Winter Troposphere
One of the ScienceBloggers has a paper in Science. Champagne all around!
Testing Darwin’s Teachers
There’s no such thing as a bad question…right?
A Year to Live, A Year to Die
This guy was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and with his remaining year, he made an audio diary. Listen here.
NASA HQ Raided In Kiddie Porn Probe
Scandal erupts at NASA. What would be more embarrassing: the child porn or documents advocating non-Newtonian gravity in lieu of dark matter?
Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” —Albert Einstein, 1932. (via FrinkTank)

Originally published April 2, 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.
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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.