Global Reset
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Starting Over
April 22, 2011
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.
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On Discovering Life
March 14, 2011
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.
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On the Freedom of Knowledge
March 07, 2011
The European Research Council has mobilized to unify Europe's fragmented research efforts through the creation of a single market for scientific knowledge.
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On Biotechnology Without Borders
March 03, 2011
Biologists have become engineers of the living world. By making their bioengineered solutions to global problems openly available, we can transform the developing world.
biotechnology, commons, development, engineering, global reset, information
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On Curing Everything
March 02, 2011
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics wanes.
biotechnology, disease, global reset, health, medicine, research
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On Adapting to Sandpiles
February 03, 2011
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
February 01, 2011
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
January 31, 2011
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
January 28, 2011
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
January 27, 2011
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
January 21, 2011
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
January 18, 2011
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
January 14, 2011
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
January 07, 2011
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.
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On Delivering Vaccines
December 30, 2010
Vaccine deployment is a challenge in the third world with its unreliable power grids and roads. We need a self-sufficient device—a super thermos—to surmount this lack of infrastructure.
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On Meaningful Observation
December 27, 2010
Adding art and design to science education would put a bit of humanity back into the innovation engine and lead to the most meaningful kind of progress.
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On Education
December 25, 2010
With a cross-disciplinary approach to education, we can train a new class of problem-solvers to address current global challenges, from poverty to climate change.
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On International Cooperation
December 21, 2010
Progress on world challenges, from the environment to health to food security, depends on interdisciplinary, globe-spanning conversations.
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On Early Warning Signs
December 20, 2010
Rapid shifts are the hallmark of climate change, epileptic seizures, financial crises, and fishery collapses. Deep mathematical principles tie these events together.
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On Systemic Risk
December 16, 2010
In an increasingly interconnected world, the actions of the few can rapidly spiral into a global crisis. Policymakers must learn from recent events to control the risk latent in our interdependence.
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On Resilience
December 13, 2010
How much disturbance can a system withstand? With roots in ecology and complexity science, resilience theory can turn crises into catalysts for innovation.
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On Restoring the Oceans
December 09, 2010
Earth’s oceans are in trouble. But the 2010 Census of Marine Life—the first ever attempt to document all that lives in the sea—will kick-start the recovery effort.
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On Closing the Culture Gap
November 30, 2010
Climate change, biodiversity loss, nuclear conflict—all are caused by human activity. We need a way to reorganize and refocus the sciences and humanities with a “Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior.”
culture, global reset, physical science, population, public perception, social science
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On Competitive Collaboration
November 26, 2010
Hundreds of multinational collaborators, thousands of scientists, and a $10 billion particle accelerator at CERN have produced a new working model for science—and for globalization.
competition, global reset, innovation, lhc, physical science
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On the Next Internet
November 25, 2010
Grid computing began as a data-management solution for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Now, it stands to redefine collaborative problem-solving in science and beyond.
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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.
