Seed magazine is a science-n-fashion magazine. It’s every bit as odd as it sounds. The ads look like they came straight out of Vanity Fair, and an article about James Watson’s new memoir is nestled next to a fashion shoot (“Unleash the gypsy within this spring, as the casual ease of a bygone bohemian era returns.”). This magazine will be out of business in six months. There is a good article by Guns, Germs, and Steel author Jared Diamond in which he talks about the dissolution of nomadic societies (as in Somalia and Afghanistan) as a root cause of economic deterioration and social unrest. His conclusion: make nomads settle and you give them a bad deal. They know it, and they’ll end up making you pay. And so they are.
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Rambles Blog at Star Chamber 
Well, gulley it appears that your forecast of SEED magazine’s imminent demise in May of 2002 was premature. The magazine looks even better and contains some of the best (and most accessible) science writing available. Check it out! =0)