Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 10/4/2006

• Huzzah for Smoot and Mather!
  In this comment, Momma Free-Ride discusses her time working on COBE (the project, not the satellite itself) with the newest Nobel laureates.
• TEDTalks: Al Gore
  Al Gore talks about averting disaster and shows off his bizarrely attuned comic sense. (via The World's Fair)
• Best of Nikon Small World Contest (flash-free edition)
  These may be the most attractive science-photo-contest-winners of all time. Did someone say "set as desktop background?"
• And now for something completely different: What makes foods disgusting?
  Hint: Brains fit the bill.
• Numbers Are Male, Said Pythagoras, and the Idea Persists
  Read a history-based take on the exclusion of women from science.

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