The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew: In "Seed," Slate's David Plotz will tell the story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank founded in the late '70s by California industrialist and eugenicist Robert Graham and publicized by its most prominent sperm donor, William Shockley, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the transistor, who became obsessed with the degradation of the human gene pool. And David will report on what became of the children born of Graham's experiment. At least Slate expects that he probably will report on it. Instead of doing all his reporting and then composing a long article, David will file dispatches, which Slate will post immediately, as he goes about his research. Readers will be able to follow the reporter as he gathers and analyzes his material, and Slate has no more idea than the readers do about where the story will lead him or how it will come out. When he is done, if it works, the entire article will be published as an eBook.