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Summary: Science & Culture Well Presented - Recommended!
Comment: "Seed" is a very interesting and enjoyable magazine, combining hard science with artistic and social elements.
Each issue has contained something of interest to my science oriented family (biology, physics, nanotech, etc) and some interesting interviews with leaders in various fields of studies.
The photos and diagrams are top notch and add to the appeal of the magazine.
Recommended for those who want to liven up the dry sciences!
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Summary: Stunning, Unusual, and Highly Entertaining
Comment: My biggest complaint with this magazine is that it doesn't come often enough. While yes, certainly catered to a more scientifically aware, intelligent crowd, SEED by no means approaches the drudgery of a scientific journal. In each issues is even a thick, tear-out "cribsheet" on basic scientific issues or concepts from global warming and photosynthesis to string theory.
One of the defining characteristics of this magazine that make it so enjoyable is the visual content. Just as much as what's embodied in its articles, these full page photo essay spreads from places like Antarctica or the Nobel prize ceremony offer a rare, beautiful glimpse at those who are working for progress and innovation.
I would even go so far as to call the magazine elegant. The little touches put into these issues augment my enjoyment almost as much as the content itself. In most magazines, popular or scientific, the line between ad or article is slyly blurred. While SEED would still most likely fall into the aforementioned category, I don't find myself annoyed flipping through these thick, glossy pages. Rather, these full paged picture essays, scientific meanderings, and editorials blend seamlessly together into a much more sophisticated ad set.
Topping my list of favorite magazines, SEED is highly recommended.
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Summary: "Science is Culture"
Comment: So says the magazine's subtitle. Well, of course. Being bold enough to come out and say so is different, though, in a world where marketing is considered a creative profession and engineering isn't.
This isn't a technical journal. I get "Science" magazine and read it avidly every week, plus a drift of professional magazines and transactions. Seed is something different. It's for the geek who'd rather see a picture of a Nobel winner than of Paris Hilton. (Can you imagine meeting all 295 living Nobelists? This photojournalist did. I'm jealous.) It's for someone who cares as much about what robots should do as what they could do. It's for someone who's willing to learn about urbanization by studying power laws in mammal metabolic rates. It's about science as a political tool and politics as a subject of scientific study. There's even a guided tour of a grad student's bookshelf - if you've never seen a prime example, you'll be amazed at just how deeply personal a cubic meter or two over someone's desk can be.
Being a true geek never ends. Yes we work in physics (crunchy), chemistry (smelly), or biology (squishy), but we never leave all of our work behind. Our loves, our arts, our literature, our gaze into a starry night or into a rainbow all have something more in them because we see the science inside. It's like living in a world with a whole extra color. It's like living in Indra's Net, where every jewel reflects every other, including all the reflections. Seed is for us - geeks not just in the world of geeks, but in the world at large.
You'll get your facts somewhere else, but come back here for opinions, ideas, and a little memetic recombination. The level assumes a high-school-plus general knowledge of the "hard" fields (all of them), doesn't talk down, and doesn't get lost in the gee-whiz. I'm not sure they have the recipe quite right yet, but it's a worthy effort anyway.
-- wiredweird
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Summary: Seed
Comment: Seed sent a promotional subscription to my work. I enjoyed it so much that i ordered it for myself. I enjoy it and only wish it came out more often!
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Summary: Great pictures!
Comment: I feel like a college grad just having these magazines on our coffee table! When the neighboors or people we want to impress come over, we lay these magazines out, switch the radio to NPR, hide the TV Guide and put on clean sweaters.
The pictures are amazing! The close-up shots are really colorful and it's hard to figure out what kind of plants these seeds came from. If Seed printed 12 issues a year insead of only 6, it would deserve a full 5 stars.
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