Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/22/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/22/2006

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

Breast beginnings
PZ discusses the evolutionary origins of those inflamed, mucus-oozing glands commonly known as boobies.
Daeschler on Colbert
Colbert invites one of the men who discovered Tiktaalik roseae on his show, and that’s just one of the reasons why Comedy Central’s news is better than everyone else’s news.
HOW TO - Make Tamiflu
Get our your chemistry sets, kids, and lets avoid a pandemic!
Categorizing by race: As automatic as reading?
This is wildly interesting: The Stroop Effect exists for race, not just physical color.
if the earth were a sandwich
Yes! This will solve all of our problems. If you’re half of a Hawaii/Botswana romance, this is the project for you.

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Originally published May 21, 2006

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