Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/21/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/21/2008

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

Comfort Food, for Monkeys
Low-status rhesus monkeys don’t overeat when they’re stressed…unless the food is deliciously junky.
My experiment with smart drugs
Johann Hari discovers the joys of Provigil. Jonah calls out the tradeoff.
Can Ants Eat Your Computer?
And why do “crazy raspberry” ants like it so much?
“The lab guilt! It’s tearing me apart!*$?”
Shouldn’t you be working in a lab right now?
Assume a Spherical FutureBaby…
Physicists and students of physics will find this enormously gratifying. And hilarious.

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Originally published May 20, 2008

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