Seed: Science is Culture

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• The Social Life
  What humans can learn from social insects.
• Martian Pole Dotted With Carbon Dioxide Geysers
  
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 8/31/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• Triangulating Tehran
  Russia, the West, and Iran's nuclear future
• Do Landscapes Influence Human Behavior?
  

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• Best Week Ever
  Between Pluto, stem cells, dark matter and long-term potentiation, last week brought a slew of scientific discoveries, reminding us why we love this stuff.
• Fewer Vietnam Vets Suffered From PTSD
  
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 8/30/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• The New Goldrush: The Demand for Ethanol
  
• The Battle Between Food and Fuel
  Exploding demand for ethanol could inflate the price of food and threaten the world's hungry
• Fast-Evolving DNA May Account for Differences Between Human, Chimp Brains
  
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 8/29/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• I Can't Believe It's Science (for Aug. 28, 2006)
  Polar bears' genitals are shrinking, Gospel listeners are engaging in unprotected sex, and livestock are still contributing to global warming.
• Week in Science (for Aug. 28, 2006)
  Pluto is out, irrigation is in, and the ozone layer is slowly recovering.
• Time Before Time
  An event like the Big Bang is about as likely as billions of coin tosses all coming up heads. Explaining why that is might take us from empty space to other universes--and through the mirror of time.
• Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 8/28/2006
  Five issues, insights and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.
• The Great, Dysfunctional Planet Debate
  The contentious new planet definition passed by the International Astronomical Union leaves Pluto out.
• Scientists Confirm Dark Matter's Existence
  
• What is The Poincare Conjecture?
  
• Not Feeling the Fields
  Grisha Perelman becomes the first person ever to turn down math's top prize.