Ben Seal
Ben Seal is a Philadelphia-based freelance journalist whose coverage includes science, the environment, food and agriculture, and community resilience. More of his work is available on his website.
More from Ben Seal
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The Thinking Plant’s Man
Jagadish Chandra Bose and the contentious search for plant intelligence.
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Water and Power
Could a century-old aqueduct point the way to Los Angeles’s clean energy future?
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A Tragedy with No End
Why does Garrett Hardin’s pessimistic fable haunt our collective imagination?
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Sylvia Earle and the Call of the Deep
Adventure and tangled interests under the sea.
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A Cold Day in Stockholm
At the dawn of a new age in neuroscience, the rivalry between Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal reached an icy climax.
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A Fix for the Unfixable: Making the First Heart-Lung Machine
Seventy years ago, a group of Philadelphia scientists and a brave 18-year-old pushed surgery to its final frontier.