Cooperation
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Portfolio: Flight Patterns
September 07, 2009
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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Pavlov’s Microorganisms
July 27, 2009
Microorganisms can predict changes in their environments—upending age-old biological tenets and giving new insight into non-neural genius.
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Full Moon, Half Measures
July 24, 2009
As the world turned its attention to the moon, politicians tried to figure out how much it will cost to save the Earth and who is responsible for footing the bill.
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Building Without Walls
July 09, 2009
A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by theoretical science, is changing how we think about building and what counts as art.
cooperation, creativity, innovation, structure, visualization
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Did Cooking Make Us Human?
June 09, 2009
A new book argues that cooked food is the key to our evolution. Did it also enable pair bonding and the concept of ownership?
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The Hive Mind
April 14, 2009
Is understanding the selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps the key to a new evolutionary synthesis?
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Growing the Tangled Bank
April 10, 2009
Darwin is best known for natural selection, but he saw the power of chance and development, too.
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How to Reign Indefinitely
April 08, 2009
An unusual form of asexual reproduction by a Japanese species of termite raises the question: What is the value of sex?
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Love at 1,200 Hz
March 02, 2009
An irritating, disease-laden species of mosquito proves that it can also be sophisticated, sensual, and even romantic.
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The Seed Salon: Alexis Rockman + Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 01, 2009
Artist Alexis Rockman and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debate the merits of hopeful images, science in pop culture, and how Hubble images mimic psychedelic art.
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Crowdsourcing the Genome
February 27, 2009
New ways of thinking about research emerge in the age of user-generated genetics.
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Seed Salon: Networks, Society, and the Evolution of Cooperation
February 04, 2009
Albert-László Barabási + James Fowler: The physicist and the political scientist discuss contagion and the Obama campaign, debate the natural selection of robustness and ask whether society is turning inward.
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Report From Dubai
February 03, 2009
Last November, the World Economic Forum convened thought leaders and heads of industry to discuss the state of the world. Seed followed up to ask where we go from here.
cooperation, energy, innovation, nanotechnology, technology, water
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Safeguarding Biology
February 02, 2009
Can biotechnology safely reverse the course of our deteriorating biosphere?
biotechnology, cooperation, decision making, disease, research
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The True 21st Century Begins
January 29, 2009
From the fevered mind of Bruce Sterling and his alter-ego, Bruno Argento, a consideration of things ahead.
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Yeast Gone Wild
December 18, 2008
Feral yeast shed light on one of Darwin's greatest evolutionary puzzles, by getting drunk and socializing.
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Bacterial Foresight
October 09, 2008
Can bacteria anticipate changes in their environment?
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Steven Pinker on Swearing and Violence
September 02, 2008
Ideas are connected in circuitous ways, and you never know when a discovery in one area will shed light on another.
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Wing of Bat, and Mouse’s Leg
August 27, 2008
Deciphering how a paw becomes a wing confirms some of eco-devo's basic hypotheses.
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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.
