Culture / Books
A Miniature Miscellany
Slideshow / by / November 5, 2009
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, meandering from molecules to quantum dots and pondering what science has in store for the future.
Now In Books
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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.
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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.
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.
Slideshow
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.
Innovator
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.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
