Seed
Magazine | Independent
Seed (subtitled Beneath the Surface, then Science Is Culture) is a science magazine published bimonthly by Seed Media Group and distributed internationally. Each issue looks at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture. Seed was founded in Montreal by Adam Bly and the magazine is now headquartered in New York with correspondents in Washington, London, Toronto and Shanghai. Seed was nominated for two National Magazine Awards in 2007 (one for Best Design, and the other for General Excellence, the ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Starting Over §
via Gianni D'Anna (t) -
Buddhism and the Brain §
Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right?via Mark Pegrum (t) -
Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM (Or an alternative vision to Kurzweil's singularity.)
The next giant leap in human evolution may not come from new fields like genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, but rather from appreciating our ancient brains.via Patrick LaForge -
Hair Raiser ?
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A Natural Obsession
When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they will confront a 181-page draft negotiation text, 2,000 bracketed passages still ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Knowing How to Pick a Fight
For decades, right-wing commentators have heaped abuse on Paul Ehrlich. He has been derided as a “stupendously bad prophet” by the Wall Street Journal, “always wrong” ...Posted by Doug Greer -
The Last Experiment
Line up a dozen environmentalists, ask them to conjure up an image of the sort of scientist who might save the planet from global warming, and it’s a safe bet none of them ...Posted by Doug Greer -
The Achilles’ Heel of Aging
Although we’ve been able to reliably slow aging in lab animals since the Jazz Age, for most of us — myself included — eating 30 percent less simply isn’t a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Seed State of Science 2008
() In this, Seed's first State of Science, we set out to examine the radical changes within science itself by assessing the evolving role of scientists and the shifting ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Cultural Evolution
() The majority of human evolution does not involve changes in our DNA, but rather alterations in the gigantic library of nongenetic information, the culture, that our species ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala



