A Letter from the Editor
Global Reset Series / by / November 22, 2010
Solutions to interconnected and complex challenges require more than new ideas. They require a new starting point. A reframing of the questions. A categorical affront to the null hypothesis. A global reset.
Now In Global Reset
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On Curing Everything
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics wanes.
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On Adapting to Sandpiles
Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that in an era defined by instability, society must remain imminently flexible and turn disruption into a force for good.
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On Governing by Design
We have only begun to tap into design’s real potential to serve as a tool for policymaking, governance, and social agendas. When used correctly, it can integrate innovation into people’s lives.
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On Rethinking IP
Licensing patents for the developing world can help bring innovations in nutrition, medicine, and countless other fields to the people who need them the most.
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On Science Publishing
The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.
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On Science Transfer
Emerging global challenges demand rapid responses from the scientific community. This can only be achieved through a reformation of the culture and practice of science—and its relation to the wider world.
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On Peace
History—not to mention differing languages, cultures, and values—can make peace difficult to achieve. Science is a common ground upon which nations can collaborate to improve our world.
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On Soil
Long regarded as lowly “dirt,” soil is gaining attention as a vital natural resource. The Global Digital Soil Map will generate data crucial for combating hunger, poverty, and climate change.
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Public Presence & Social Science
The social sciences deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, but there are barriers between practitioners and the public. We must restructure these disciplines from the ground up.
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On Overconfidence
Humans are overconfident creatures, which boosts our persistence, ambition, and drive—but can also lead to disasters. We can make such false beliefs work to our benefit.
Global Reset
Starting Over
If you only had a single statement to pass on to others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be? Seed asked eleven scientists this question. These are their answers.
Global Reset
On Discovering Life
Two separate quests, one to discover habitable worlds, the other to synthesize artificial organisms, now unite to redefine “life” and its place in the universe.
Global Reset
On the Freedom of Knowledge
The European Research Council has mobilized to unify Europe's fragmented research efforts through the creation of a single market for scientific knowledge.
Global Reset
On Biotechnology Without Borders
Biologists have become engineers of the living world. By making their bioengineered solutions to global problems openly available, we can transform the developing world.
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
