Popular Science

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(thing) by jafuser (11.7 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Tue Sep 12 2000 at 7:35:05

"The What's New Magazine"

A hardcopy magazine published monthly by Times Mirror Magazines Inc. that has been around for over 125 years. Their content focuses on announcing new products and technology in the fields of Computers & Software, Home Technology, Science, Electronics, Aviation & Space, Automobiles, and Medicine and Health. It's articles tend to stay fairly high-level, announcing new technologies rather than really explaining it's ins and outs, somewhat less detailed than most other scientific magazines such as Scientific American.

(thing) by futurehog (5.8 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Jun 08 2001 at 23:24:45

Popular science is an interesting and fun magazine, and you can always find something worth reading if you browse through it, but the average issue is more about technology than science. In the April 2001 issue of Popular Science, for example, I see one article about whales, one article about NASA's return to Mars, one about a neutrino detector, and one about a new medical theory. The rest of the magazine is about automobiles and new gadgets - not super high tech gadgets, but ones which giant corporations are getting ready to produce. Auto's and computers and cell phones, oh my!

I can't help thinking they get advertisers to write a LOT of their copy, especially with their What's New section.

Scientific American	Why does my voice sound different on a tape recorder?	Solutions to the disappearing socks problem	The OED's only (stupid) marketing gimmick
square watermelon	Why I am going to pretend I am a girl online from now on	The girl I never knew	world question center
Popular Mechanics	365 Surprising Scientific Facts, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries	Shutting the water off for real	Stephen Jay Gould
Defenders of the Truth	Edward Livingston Youmans	William Jay Youmans	The Selfish Gene
Wired Magazine	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard	Parasite Rex	Pop culture
Richard Dawkins	Karl Kruszelnicki	Jupiter Effect	E2 Secret Santa 2003

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