Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/5/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 4/5/2006

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

What, Like The Flintstones
Tony Soprano encounters a young earth creationist and rhetorically whacks him with carbon dating.
Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
Scientific evidence for one of Jesus’ “miracles”? Who’s handing out NIH funding these days, Jerry Falwell?
Climate of hope
Kevin Sweeney thinks it’s time to bring some optimism into our conversations about global warming.
“New” ID research announced
This experiment is totally Type C.
The Ballad of Tycho Brahe
In honor of scientists creating a functional bladder in the lab, here’s an ode to the organ’s best-known victim.

Originally published April 4, 2006

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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.
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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.