A Miniature Miscellany
Slideshow / by / November 5, 2009
In their newest collaboration, Felice Frankel and George Whitesides explore the nanoscale world, from molecules to quantum dots.
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Awkward Beauty
The Science Creative Quarterly editor on the complicated relationship between science and art.
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Luke Jerram: Objectively Inspired
The stunning work of an enigmatic artist. "We’re imposing our culture on scientific data whether we like it or not."
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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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Hello, You’ve Won the Nobel
The man who delivers the news to Nobel laureates on tradition, joy, and voicemail.
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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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Portfolio: Flight Patterns
Richard Barnes's photographs of birds’ flight patterns above a Rome suburb highlight the tension between the individual and the collective.
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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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The Wagnerian Method
Physicists investigate the grand artistic vision of one of the most influential artists of the last two centuries.
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The Rorschach Paintings
In creating her new series, Pareidolia, artist and chemist Vesna Jovanovic detected biomorphic and medical forms in blots of ink.
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.
You Should Know
At the Edge of Perception
Artist Luke Jerram's work explores the limits of science and art, challenging the boundaries of both.
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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.
