Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/30/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 5/30/2008

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

Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research
Science is hard and messy. Photoshop is simple and clean. (via boing boing)
Computer predicts brain activity associated with different objects
Researchers were able to map nouns to verbs to brain activity.
The real Phoenix, in black and white
This post focuses on antiscience, but it’s also really cool to learn about how we get images of Mars.
The Birth of a Chicken
This is how a chicken develops in an egg. (via boing boing)
Sex and the Country
In rural regions, sex is more frequent and less frequently protected.

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Originally published May 29, 2008

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