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- Blind man shocks researchers with what he sees. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/seeing_in_the_dark/ 144 comments
- Understanding the mind by studying ant colonies http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/ants_and_neurons/ 7 comments
- To Be a Baby http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/to_be_a_baby/ 7 comments
- The search for a nearby second Earth http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_long_shot/ 2 comments
- Is Fatigue Really Just All In Our Heads? http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/energy_for_nothing/ 14 comments
- Depression linked to failure of neurogenesis. SSRI may work not by increasing serotonin but by promoting neurogenesis http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_reinvention_of_the_self/ 21 comments science
- The important role played by the number 42 has recently persuaded even the deepest skeptics that the subatomic world might hold the key to one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/prime_numbers_get_hitched/ 15 comments math
- The Gay Animal Kingdom http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_gay_animal_kingdom/ 32 comments science
- The experience of a unified mind and the possibility of an everlasting soul are connected. And there is scant evidence to support the existence of either http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/from_divided_minds_a_specious_soul/ 5 comments cogsci
- A battle is quietly being waged between the industry that produces GM seeds and scientists trying to investigate the environmental impacts of engineered crops http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/wanted_gm_seeds_for_study/ 6 comments science
- When it comes to scientific publishing and fame, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_matthew_effect/ 4 comments science
- Neil deGrasse Tyson's workbench: "I made that lamp as a 12-year-old in seventh-grade wood shop class. ... And I said no, no, no, I’m going to make my own damn lamp. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to make Saturn. It’s my favorite planet." http://seedmagazine.com/interactive/workbench/neil-degrasse-tyson/ 61 comments science
- The idea that Evolution explains selfishness well and altruism poorly has long been dead and is now starting to stink. Can we bury it now? http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/altruism_vs._selfishness_case_closed/ 16 comments science
- Former astronaut Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz explains how his plasma rocket engine could revolutionize space travel and why we need nuclear power in space http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/a_rocket_for_the_21st_century/ 32 comments science
- Portraits of Mathematicians http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/mathematicians/ 3 comments math
- A CogSci researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance (I shan't spoil the ending) on Who wants to be a millionaire. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/who_wants_to_be_a_cognitive_neuroscientist_millionaire/ 64 comments cogsci
- Milks Murky Origins: Possible explanation for why some people evolved a tolerance for lactose. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/milks_murky_origins/ 3 comments science
- In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the elusive nature of the primes? http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/prime_numbers_get_hitched/ 8 comments reddit.com
- The Cassini orbiter snapped this image of Alpha Centauri A and B hanging over the horizon of Saturn on May 17, 2008. http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/the_long_shot/#8 10 comments space
- INSANE - Badwater Ultramarathon - 3 Days nonstop through Death Valley. Nonstop, no aid stations, sleep, or IVs allowed (and did I mention the hallucinations...) http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/research_at_badwater/ 6 comments sports
- That Voodoo That Scientists Do http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/02/that_voodoo_that_scientists_do.php 2 comments science
- A professor melds math and sociology of the Internet to predict the next big thing in music. http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/12/group_think.php 9 comments math
- Seed: Chaos Begets Chaos http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/chaos_begets_chaos.php 6 comments cogsci
- Private firms own 22% of the human genome http://seedmagazine.com/stateofscience/sos_fundamental_intellectualproperty_p1.html 17 comments science
- We look up to an expanse of sky that is billions of light-years in size, but the universe may be far larger than what we are able to see. http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/10/the_statistical_universe.php 2 comments science
- The unveiling of a 3-D printer that was built to build itself is hailed as a step toward "Darwinian Marxism." http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/09/mechanical_generation.php 15 comments technology
- Can 'The Invisible Hand' save the environment? http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/04/the_market_force_of_nature.php 2 comments reddit.com
- possible biochemical scar linking Earth's greatest mass extinction to a single substance http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/04/suspending_life.php?page=all&p=y 66 comments science
- Clarke's Magic [arthur c clarke] http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/clarkes_magic.php 2 comments science
- Why America's reliance on imported brainpower is on a collision course with its home-grown distaste for science. http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the_american_war_on_science.php 2 comments science
- Large Hadron Collider Hopes to Reveal Other, Co-Existing Dimensions http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/why_a_large_hadron_collider.php 6 comments reddit.com
- Our Solar System once had three Earthlike planets. What happened to the other two? http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/06/ghosts_of_climates_past.php? 5 comments reddit.com
- Are most published research findings actually false? http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/05/dirty_little_secret.php 5 comments science
- String theory in a nutshell [img] http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/uploads/cribsheet9.gif 43 comments science
- Who wants to be a cognitive neuroscientist millionaire http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/who_wants_to_be_a_cognitive_ne.php 13 comments reddit.com
- Flawed proof to million-dollar math problem spurs cyber soap opera http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/the_proof_is_in_the_blogging.php 3 comments science
- Study dashes hopes for a moon colony http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/study_dashes_hopes_for_moon_co.php 2 comments reddit.com
- Sociologist Will Spend Three Years Living in a Cave http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/sociologist_will_spend_three_y.php 4 comments reddit.com
- Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/03/prime_numbers_get_hitched.php?page=all&p=y 13 comments reddit.com
- The Reinvention of the Self: A mind-altering idea reveals how life affects the brain. http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/02/the_reinvention_of_the_self.php?page=all&p=y 3 comments reddit.com