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09.12.15: Science as lifestyle
The American magazine Seed will revive our belief in the future. The science magazine Seed was soon compared to Vanity Fair and Rolling Stones. It’s editor-in-chief saw that the time had come to present us all with “science as a lens”.
Read the Neue Zürcher Zeitung article (in German) here.
09.12.03: Seed to Stop Selling Ads
Seed Media Group, the science publishing company founded in 2005 by wunderkind Adam Bly, will stop selling ads in its eponymous magazine as it contends with a punishing ad market.
The oversized Seed published every other month and attracted blue-chip advertisers like GM, Canon and Tanqueray. In 2007, it was a National Magazine Award finalist for design and general excellence in the 100,000- to 250,000-circulation category.
Read the article here.
09.12.07: ScienceBlogs and “National Geographic” — A Partnership of Online Strengths
National Geographic has long been a model of publisher innovation, with well-known diversification approaches that have included international editions, television, and brand extensions for children. Last week, National Geographic made two announcements that clearly show management is not asleep at the wheel — the closure of a decade-old magazine (National Geographic Adventure) and a new sales/content partnership with ScienceBlogs.
SSP members may recall Adam Bly of SEED Media, which owns ScienceBlogs. He provided the keynote at this year’s annual meeting.
The partnership is based on ad sales and content sharing, with National Geographic helping with ad sales and ScienceBlogs providing content to nationalgeographic.com.
Read the article here.
09.12.07: Mmm – Science Cupcakes: NatGeo & ScienceBlogs Partner
It was a “sugar rush” at the Seed Media Group office on Friday as the company celebrated its majority-owned ScienceBlogs LLC partnership with NationalGeographic.com. The partnership was marked by rolling out color-appropriate cupcakes.
Read the article here.
10.06.09: ScienceBlogs Named One of ‘Eight Public Media 2.0 Projects that are Doing it Right’
“The report offers up a smorgasbord of innovative examples, but here’s an overview of each best practice, and a Public Media 2.0 project that gets it right.” ScienceBlogs is listed as one of the innovative projects that is getting it right by repurposing, remixing, and recycling. “The ScienceBlogs website expands the reach of 100 independent science-related bloggers by connecting them with a community of more than 1.5 million monthly users. Participating bloggers include university scientists and doctoral students, attorneys, physicians, journalists, social scientists, and filmmakers. The most successful bloggers average between 200 to 1,000 user comments per post, and write as many as a dozen posts a day.”
To read the article, visit: MediaShift Blog on PBS
09.24.09: Seed on the New York Times Idea Blog
Today’s idea: Why not measure economic activity from outer space? New analytical techniques and observational satellites point the way especially for measuring the economies of data-poor developing nations. Getting less attention was this study led by Brown University economists, which used a decade’s worth of global night-light data from satellites to show a link between changes in a country’s G.D.P. and the intensity of its electric lighting. Such work “may soon open a more vigorous frontier for measuring economic activity from space,” reports Lee Billings in Seed magazine, especially when it comes to the developing world, “where the quality of collected economic data is notoriously poor.”
To read the article, visit: The New York Times
To read Seed’s article, visit: Illuminating Dark Economies
06.28: Great Minds Gather to Explore Innovation
“Imagine a sleek room of black and chrome filled with the smart set - university presidents, corporate leaders, scholars, scientists, and a provocateur or two thrown together to strike sparks. In the course of a day, conversation ran from fusion to folding cars, high-performance computing to Pringles packaging, patented ball caps to the meaning of life. Sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness and the science magazine Seed, the seminar Tuesday at the Newseum explored creativity - and, more specifically, how to generate it.”
To read the whole article, visit: Philly.com
06.09.09: Fast Company highlights SEEDMAGAZINE.COM’s ‘A new Map for Design’ by Paola Antonelli
“This month, Seed Magazine delivers a fantastic article by the senior curator of architecture and design for the Museum of Modern Art—“A New Map for Design”. Antonelli questions Milan’s furniture fair as ground zero for design’s future as the manufacturers once charged with cranking out hundreds of chairs in a factory no longer have the geographic pull on the industry. We’ll look to Antonelli to continue to lead the way for how designers’ ideas—not products—are preserved in the collections of museums for generations to come. ”
To read the whole article, visit: Fast Company
06.08.09: ScienceBlogs Listed as One of Top 20 Websites Every Scientist (or Engineer) Ought To Know
“[Here] is a list of 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about: ScienceBlogs: This site, operated by…Seed, contains a list of several dozen of the best science blogs.”
To read the whole article, visit: Examiner.com
06.05.09: Website Of The Week - Seed Magazine
“Seed Magazine will keep you up to date with the latest science news and trends, but one thing that distinguishes it from other science journalism, online or otherwise, is a special focus on culture and the arts.
“We believe science is a fundamental, driving element of culture so that science, of course, has an impact on arts,” says Gorman. “And so what we do is monitor that intersection and report for our audience on how science is driving new ways of expressing ideas through the arts.”
You can see that in an engaging feature called the Seed Salon, where you can watch video dialogues between noted scientists and thinkers in other fields.”
To read the article, visit: VOA
06.01.09: AdAge singles out Seed Visualization’s latest project for GE, THe Health Visualizer
Check it out here: Advertising Age
To see the Health Visualizer, visit: GE
05.20.09: The Ambitious “Seed”
“It is very encouraging that some magazines realize that great content is highly desired, independent of its distribution form. And Seed is one of the few magazines that continues to hire extremely talented individuals to increase the quality of its thinking and work.” - by DRAFTFCBlog - a collaborative blog written by the employees of Draftfcb, one of the world’s largest ad agencies.
To read their article on Seed, visit: DRAFTFCBlog
04.14.09: Seed Articles Picked Three Times in One Week by New York Times’ Idea of the Day Blog
04.14: “Today’s idea: New “multiverse” theories challenge both humanity’s uniqueness and our central place in the cosmos, Nathan Schneider writes in Seed magazine.” To read the article, visit: Did God Create The Multiverse
04:10: “Recommended Reading: It’s All in the Toes: A New Study Supports the Idea That Humans Evolved as Long-Distance Runners –Maywa Montenegro, Seed.” To read the article, visit: The Running Man, Revisited
04.08: “Today’s idea: People tend to misread pie charts, perceptual psychologists say. In an era of ever more complex scientific data, they may not be the best way to present information visually. The venerable pie chart dates back at least a couple of centuries, Veronique Greenwood writes in Seed magazine.” To read the article, visit: Getting Past the Pie Chart
03.25.09: ScienceBlogs Physical Science Section Listed As One of The Great Physics Blogs by The UK Telegraph
“The Physical sciences section contains, among many others, the excellent Neuron Culture by David Dobbs and Dynamics of Cats, which is a very good source for all things astrophysical and the politics of Steinn Sigurðsson of Penn State university.”
To read the article, visit: The Telegraph
03.12.09: ScienceBlogs named one of 100 Best Blogs by The Times of London
“This feisty portal hosts a 75-strong army of witty and qualified practitioners fighting at the front line of idiocy, bigotry and
ignorance to achieve a science-savvy citizenry.”
To read the article, visit: The Times
03.03.09: Seed in The New York Times
An excerpt of Seed’s interview with President George W. Bush’s science adviser, John Marburger, in The New York Times.
To read the article, visit: The New York Times
02.06.09: Seed Editor-at-large Jonah Lehrer on The Colbert Report
Jonah Lehrer talks about finding a balance between the rational and the emotional in decision-making.
To watch the video, visit: The Colbert Report
01.31.09: Seed on Reuters
Reuters interviews Seed founder Adam Bly during the World Economic Forum in Davos highlighting the opinion that science is now crucial to the world of commerce.
To watch the video, visit: Reuters
01.30.09: Seed in Conde Nast’s Portfolio
Portfolio interviews Seed founder Adam Bly about his impressions of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos.
To read the article, visit: Portfolio
01.15.09: Seed’s Marburger interview on The Atlantic
Andrew Sullivan singles out the Marburger interview on the Daily Dish: “A revealing and interesting interview with the outgoing Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Marburger.”
For more, visit: The Atlantic
01.14.09: Seed’s Marburger interview on Mother Jones
Kevin Drum highlights a part of Seed’s interview with Bush Science Adviser Dr. John Marburger
For more, visit: Mother Jones
11.19.08: Seed on CNBC Europe
“Veteran CEO, Maurice Levy, from Publicis speaks with Seed Media Group CEO Adam Bly, whose passion for science is bringing a new audience to advertisers.”
Watch the video: The Transformers: Bly and Levy
11.18.08: Seed in Italian magazine L’Espresso
L’Espresso asks chief editors such as Seed’s Adam Bly, Monocle’s Tyler Brule, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, among others, about their favorite websites.
For the full article, visit: L’Espresso
09.18.08: Seed Media Group and ResearchBlogging.org profiled in The Economist
“Earlier this month Seed Media Group, a firm based in New York, [helped to launch] the latest version of Research Blogging, a website which acts as a hub for scientists to discuss peer-reviewed science. Although Web 2.0, with its emphasis on user-generated content, has been derided as a commercial cul-de-sac, it may prove to be a path to speedier scientific advancement.”
For the full article, visit: User-generated Science—The Economist
7.09.08: Chicago Tribune: Seed on Top 50 Magazine List
“The magazine’s tag line is ‘Science Is Culture,’ and this monthly glossy takes both very seriously. The writing assumes a basic or better undeer understanding of scientific fundamentals, a rare case in a dumb-it-down media culture of respecting and challenging an audience. The layout and photography are cutting-edge, and its cultural discourse (particularly The Seed Salon: a head-to-head conversation between two professionals, critics or luminaries in each issue) is truly thought-provoking.”
For the full article, visit: www.chicagotribune.com
5.13.08: Seed in Slate
Slate singles out our articles “Carnivores Like Us” about the economics of meat consumption and “Distant Mirrors,” an article about how finding life on other worlds requires thinking about how other life would find us—in the May/June issue of Seed.
5.8.08: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum
Seed Media Group CEO Adam Bly, Sheril Kirshenbaum of the ScienceBlog The Intersection, and Anthony Crider, co-founder of the virtual community SciLands, spoke about science and new media at the 33rd annual AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum.
Download MP3s of the talks:
Adam Bly:
—What is Seed?
—Science + Design
—Science + Policy
—Consilience: merging the arts and the sciences
—New Science Media: Phylotaxis and ScienceBlogs
Sheril Kirshenbaum:
—The Science Blogosphere
Anthony Crider:
—Science in the Virtual World
5.7.08: Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose interviews MoMA curator Paola Antonelli about her collaboration with Seed and how it led to the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition.
2.17.08: International Herald Tribune
“If designers are to embrace elasticity, they will have to work more openly and collaboratively… [Paola Antonelli] practiced what she preaches in the preparations for ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’ by holding a series of salons, organized in collaboration with the science magazine Seed, to discuss the issues explored in the show.”
2.12.08: Seed Media Group CEO Adam Bly gives a series of interviews and answers questions for Big Think
How do you deal with the unknown? How has science changed our understanding of ourselves? Does science explain everything?
2.11.08: Toronto Star
Seed Media Group CEO Adam Bly speaks out against the dismissal of Canada’s science adviser in the Toronto Star.
1.31.08: Wall Street Journal
”Secret Science,” the opinion article from Seed’s January/February issue, is discussed on The Wall Street Journal’s “The Informed Reader”.
1.25.08: Voice of America
ScienceBlogs was chosen as the Voice of America’s website of the week.
1.22.08: Digital Life Design
Seed Media Group CEO Adam Bly moderates “Reality Formula” discussion at Hubert Burda Media’s DLD Conference.
1.18-19.08: ScienceBlogs at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference
For videos of the sessions, visit A Blog Around the Clock.
1.7.08: The Chronicle of Higher Education
ScienceBlogs’ debate over the next science adviser is profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
12.14.07: Time
ScienceBlogs reviewed in the Time article, “Why I Hate Scientist-Bloggers.”
12.11.07: Wall Street Journal
“Who Speaks For Earth” article in the December 2007 issue of Seed is discussed in the Wall Street Journal’s “Informed Reader” section.
7.26.07: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Planting seeds for smart conversation: “What kind of hybrid do you get when you plant seeds like philosophy, pop culture, scientific facts and theory, and designers who can deliver a punch with delicacy or dynamism? That would be Seed magazine.”
3.1.07: GOOD Magazine
Seed listed as a current favorite in GOOD’s Media Issue: The 51 Best Magazines Ever. “Science has never looked so good, or felt so accessible. Dare we say cool?” Seed also gets a shout out in the science and technology section.
1.1.07: UTNE Reader
The best comparison for Seed is the early years of Rolling Stone, when music was less a subject than a lens for viewing American culture.
4.13.06: USC Annenberg, Online Journalism Review
Pass the politics, please: ScienceBlogs peppered with commentary.
4.3.06: BusinessWeek
Life, the Universe and All That, BusinessWeek reviews ScienceBlogs.
4.1.06: DrinkatWork.com
Science and the English Major, A compilation of Seed magazine reviews
1.21.06: BoingBoing
1.20.06: New York Times
10.14.05: Media Post
Magazine Rack—What’s Hot Under Covers. “If I had to pick one magazine that defines the cultural zeitgeist, it would be Seed .”
9.15.05: Washington Post
Review of Seed correspondent Chris Mooney’s book “Republican War on Science”. “Seed, an excellent and relatively new science magazine.”
12.21.04: UTNE Reader
Independent Press Award Winners: “This Montreal-based bimonthly will show you how gripping a field trip to the frontiers of reason can be. Get ready to meet the creative labs and minds that, for better or worse, now hold the power to reshape the economy, culture, and life itself.”
8.26.03: The Boston Globe
Science eye for the nonscience guy: “Science has officially been made hip, thanks to the magazine Seed.”
9.23.02: Adweek
Debra Goldman’s Consumer Republic: Making science cool for readers—and advertisers.