Literacy
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A Writing Revolution
October 20, 2009
Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow's.
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Crash Course in Relativity
August 25, 2009
A Seed editor documents, chapter by chapter, her experience reading Why Does E=mc2?
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April Book Picks
April 01, 2009
New works on the human cost of fear, the paradigm-shifting astronomer Edwin Hubble, and the comic failings of religious fundamentalists.
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Seeing Antlers, Feeling Dendrites
February 27, 2009
Christopher Reiger’s Synesthesia #1, the fluidity of perception, and how art can express phenomena in a way data alone cannot.
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The Amazing Race
February 25, 2009
The Linguists depicts an around-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
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Seed Picks 2008
December 23, 2008
Seed selects the year's outstanding book releases, from Mary Roach's sex book, Bonk, to E.O. Wilson's ant colony opus, The Superorganism.
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A Tale of Two Galaxies
December 15, 2008
Two radically different approaches to the story of modern physics reveal how we learn — and learn to love — science.
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The US Versus God Particles
November 24, 2008
The Atom Smashers splits open the US's problematic relationship with scientific research.
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
September 07, 2008
Video games are reshaping how we perform and promote science.
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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.
