Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/26/2006 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/26/2006

July 26, 2006

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

They found the lakes on Titan!
Grab your suits, kids, we’re going to greater Saturn for summer vacation. (via Phil)
The real story of the hurricanes
There is a scientific consensus that people need to hightail it out of hurricane-prone areas.
Hearing Voices - the invisible intruders
Australian radio show All In The Mind focuses on auditory hallucinations. Psychiatry professor David Copolov chats about what happens neurologically when a person hears voices.
Photo in the News: Snake Swallows Electric Blanket
Mmm, warms you from the inside out.
Brainiac: Alkali Metals
“Cesium ducky, you’re the one…”
Update: Apparently this demonstration was faked. For shame, Braniac! (Hat tip: Ronald van R.)

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Ideas

Invoking the Magic of the Mind

Are secrets of the evolution of the mind to be found by imagining the ancestors of tool-wielding crows, or is such an approach strictly for the birds?
Culture

Photographer to the Stars

Famed space photographer David Malin talks about why his new compilation, Ancient Light, is in black and white and on the role of aesthetics in astronomy.
Innovation

Serious Fun

Kodu doesn’t have realistic graphics, huge explosions, or even a way to win. But it just might change the way we think about the world.