Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/22/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/22/2008

July 22, 2008

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

Leopard Attacking Crocodile
It may not be very scientific, but it sure is awesome.
Mirrors Don’t Lie. Mislead? Oh , Yes.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most deluded of them all?
You are hereby sentenced eternally to wander the newspapers, fruitlessly mocking nutriwoo
The danger of baseless nutritional claims and the bad science behind them.
Cambridge Manufacturing Engineering Design Show 2008
Interesting design solutions for strange problems.
Rational Voters?
Is there anything about politics that is rational?

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Innovation

Let There Be Light

Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
Ideas

Into the Uncanny Valley

New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
World

Signs from Above

The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.