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A PLACE FOR SCIENCE

SEED AUGUST 2008

A Place for Science: On the trail of the haunts, homes, and posts of knowledge, from the labaortaory to the field.
Labs at Night: A photo essay by Noah Kalina
Craig Venter, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Nicholas Humphrey, Frank Wilczek & Oliver Sacks on where they go to think.

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The Shape of Music

How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
The Transcript: Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga

The father of cognitive neuroscience and the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human condition, and The Interpreter.
Cribsheet #16: Synthetic Biology

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The Reality Tests

A team of physicists in Vienna has devised experiments that may answer one of the enduring riddles of science: Do we create the world just by looking at it?
A Proliferation of Mistakes?

Experts begin to rethink US efforts to keep nukes in friendly hands.
Distant Mirrors

To find life on other worlds requires thinking about how other life would find us.
Carnivores Like Us

Humanity's rapidly increasing appetite for meat is fast becoming a matter of global consequence. Paul Roberts on the science, and morality, of our planet's modern palate.
Marc Hauser + Errol Morris

The evolutionary psychologist and the documentary filmmaker discuss game theory, Stanley Milgram, and whether science can make us better people.
Cribsheet #15: Quantum Computing

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A Question of Democracy

Counting down to the election, America's science community is asking itself some deep questions about the interplay between science and politics.
Abstract Sculptures of Evolution

Genes provide only the basic blueprints for our teeth. Shapes and sizes arise from the predictable interaction of molecules that live in the jaw itself.
"So"

The anatomy of a scientific staple
The Market Force of Nature

Putting the "invisible hand" to work for nature could reshape the values of capitalism.
Planetary Protection

Governments reconsider the risk of Near-Earth asteroid and comet impacts.
Revolutionary Minds: Design & Architecture

Our first online Revolutionary Minds feature profiles thinkers from the forefront of science-inspired design and architecture.