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Full Steam Ahead on CS-STEM

2011-05-24T19:49:11+00:00

By imagining, drawing, and building original videogames, Globaloria students have been boldly demonstrating how art and design and creative cognition can re-ignite STEM learning.

Rethinking Growth

2011-04-26T16:19:56+00:00

Herman Daly applies a biophysical lens to the economy and finds that bigger isn’t necessarily better.

Starting Over

2011-04-22T16:28:52+00:00

If you only had a single statement to pass on to others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be? Seed asked eleven scientists this question. These are their answers.

The Art of Science Learning

2011-04-07T04:03:01+00:00

It's no secret: American children are behind in math and science, and falling faster by the year. For a group of innovative thinkers gathering in Washington DC, restoring "STEM" in America must go beyond multiplication drills, beyond the latest in computer apps. It's time to re-imagine science learning altogether, they say: it's time for wood and clay, watercolor and chalk.

World Wide Mind

2011-03-28T09:52:04+00:00

For an author with cochlear implants, the merger of computer and brain, bytes and thoughts, has never felt far-fetched. In a brilliant new book, Michael Chorost makes his case: by making the internet a new nervous system for humanity, humans will also re-connect with one another in a profoundly new way.

On Discovering Life

2011-03-14T13:47:24+00:00

Two separate quests, one to discover habitable worlds, the other to synthesize artificial organisms, now unite to redefine “life” and its place in the universe.

Buddhism and the Brain

2011-03-09T15:27:28+00:00

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?

On the Freedom of Knowledge

2011-03-07T15:30:32+00:00

The European Research Council has mobilized to unify Europe's fragmented research efforts through the creation of a single market for scientific knowledge.

On Biotechnology Without Borders

2011-03-03T15:57:03+00:00

Biologists have become engineers of the living world. By making their bioengineered solutions to global problems openly available, we can transform the developing world.

On Curing Everything

2011-03-02T15:48:23+00:00

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics wanes.

Humans, Version 3.0

2011-02-23T14:26:30+00:00

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.

On Adapting to Sandpiles

2011-02-03T14:41:31+00:00

Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that in an era defined by instability, society must remain imminently flexible and turn disruption into a force for good.

On Governing by Design

2011-02-01T13:25:46+00:00

We have only begun to tap into design’s real potential to serve as a tool for policymaking, governance, and social agendas. When used correctly, it can integrate innovation into people’s lives.

On Rethinking IP

2011-01-31T13:34:06+00:00

Licensing patents for the developing world can help bring innovations in nutrition, medicine, and countless other fields to the people who need them the most.

On Science Publishing

2011-01-28T14:41:41+00:00

The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

On Science Transfer

2011-01-27T14:13:17+00:00

Emerging global challenges demand rapid responses from the scientific community. This can only be achieved through a reformation of the culture and practice of science—and its relation to the wider world.

Wild Animal Sex

2011-01-26T15:52:58+00:00

New research in birds, reptiles, and insects is redefining “normal” sexual behavior, revealing that gender-bending, promiscuous, and dangerous sex isn’t limited to humans.

Mapping Science

2011-01-24T05:01:10+00:00

Mapmaking has a new challenge far more involved than depicting the traits of the physical world. As revealed in a stunning new collection, the Atlas of Science, the task at hand is at once ambitious and amorphous: to map the world of scientific knowledge, the collective wisdom that humans have accumulated over time — and continue to generate at an ever-increasing pace.

On Peace

2011-01-21T13:08:45+00:00

History—not to mention differing languages, cultures, and values—can make peace difficult to achieve. Science is a common ground upon which nations can collaborate to improve our world.

If it’s Inspiring, Can it Be Wrong?

2011-01-19T13:04:19+00:00

After attending last week’s ScienceOnline conference in North Carolina, Dave Munger asks whether relying on titillating tactics is a boon or bane for promoting science to the public.