Seed: Science is Culture

Zeitgeist

Five issues, insights, and observations shaping our perspective, from the editors of Seed.

• Creole birdsong?
  Like humans, a group of unschooled zebra finches can develop normal language in a few generations. Please keep your pigeon pidgin jokes to yourself. (via Jake)
• Looking For Mars Polar Lander
  Go! Find the Lander! (via BA)
• Colliding with nature's best-kept secrets
  It's great when CNN.com's most popular story is a profile of a physicist.
• Rats succumb to peer pressure too
  Come on, everyone's eating cinnamon pellets...
• You hippy-crites! When it comes to saving the planet do celebrities practise what they preach?
  If you want a calm, tasteful exploration of celebrity environmentalism, look elsewhere. (via Tierney)

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