Culture / Books
Fire, Water, Acid, and Stone
Slideshow / by / November 12, 2009
In Bernhard Edmaier’s photographs, glowing rivers of lava and scarred volcanic plains share the stage with more obscure markers of tectonic activity—sulfurous crystals, eerily hued lakes, and pools of bubbling mud.
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Catching the Wind in Rural Malawi
With a tinkerer’s imagination and farmer’s grit, William Kamkwamba transformed junk into the beginning of one small town’s green energy revolution.
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Books to Read Now
October releases on the culture of consumption, the Golden Age of General Relativity, and how rumors spread on the internet.
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Survival of the Kindest
In his new book, The Age of Empathy, Frans de Waal outlines an alternative to “Nature, red in tooth and claw.” Can a vision of a more empathic world change the way we behave toward each other?
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Studying the Strangest Man
Graham Farmelo explains why Paul Dirac may be the 20th century’s most misunderstood physicist, and speculates that Dirac may have had undiagnosed autism.
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Books to Read Now
September releases on the history of language and writing, displaced citizens of virtual worlds, and the need for global resiliency.
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Crash Course in Relativity
A Seed editor documents, chapter by chapter, her experience reading Why Does E=mc2?
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Books to Read Now
August releases on the curious world of microbes, why Einstein’s relativity matters, the intimate history of falling stars, and more.
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Inside the Mathematical Mind
Mariana Cook’s stunning portraits and narration from her subjects offers a candid look at the secret lives of mathematicians.
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The Coming Oil-Free Utopia
In $20 a Gallon, Christopher Steiner argues that rising oil prices will not unravel society, but rather change it for the better.
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Books to Read Now
July releases on how to join the commercial space race, a brief history of futurism, the inner world of mathematicians, and more.
Slideshow
A Miniature Miscellany
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, from molecules to quantum dots.
Reviews
A Man on the Edge
A new biography explores Jacques Cousteau’s strange and colorful life but struggles to uncover why he has been so quickly forgotten.
Seed Picks
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
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Traveling Through Time and Stars
In Far Out, stunning astronomical images and lyrical essays on the nature of light and space explore the universe’s past.
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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.
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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.
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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.
