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Phylotaxis

Created for Seed Magazine by Jonathan Harris

The individual beads of the Phylotaxis represent an ever-changing zeitgeist of science news in our world, populated automatically every few hours by a computer program that scours a slew of online news sources and blogs that focus on science. The Phylotaxis is therefore beyond human control, autonomously composing its own new identity, based on what's happening in the world of science.

Tim Murtaugh documents the creation and launch of SeedMagazine and the related Sciencegate journal. A coming together of some very smart people.