Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/9/2008 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Seed’s Daily Zeitgeist: 7/9/2008

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

Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet: To Science
An Edgar Allen Poe sonnet about science set to music and video.
Google reveals truth behind Apollo!
Two guys create a YouTube spoof that manages to simultaneously lampoon the reach of Google and the idea of a sound-stage moon landing.
Women, Science, and Publishing Revisited
New data call into question the concrete benefit of double-blind paper reviews.
The Nose That Never Knows
What is a life without smell actually like?
New tool anyone can use to track disease outbreaks
As the federal government refuses to release salmonella outbreak information, it seems increasingly possible to cobble it together ourselves.

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Originally published July 9, 2008

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