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

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• Faust and the Physicists
  What is the point of knowing nature’s deepest secrets, Goethe asks, if humankind never attains self-knowledge?
• Satellites
  From Sputnik to Dish Network, this video explainer details the history of satellites. (And some more about satellites over at Centauri Dreams)
• Healthy Right Up to the Day You’re Not
  The paradox of health frustrates doctors and patients alike.
• From mothballs to mobilization: Taking the salt out of sea water
  A creative reuse of old naval hardware could mean a fleet of floating desalinization plants with the capacity to provide clean water to those areas struck by natural disaster.
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Originally published September 30, 2008