Comments on: Popular Science Magazines

By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:11:26 +0000

coturnix: Right now I only have subs to Scientific American, New Scientist, and The Atlantic. I’m ok about keeping on top of it all but combined with the daily paper, the stacks just grow. AHHHH!! I’ve never seen a copy of Seed Magazine. I don’t think it’s sold in the UK. Think they might send me a copy?

Correction: US to UK.

By: coturnix

coturnix — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:34:04 +0000

I used to get pretty much everything – Scientific American, American Scientist, Discover, Natural History, The Sciences (before it folded), Science News, BioScience, in addition to Science, Nature and a couple of more specialized journals. There was always a New Scientist and The Scientists at the lab as well.

I am too broke now so I let everything expire. The Natural History is still arriving and, of course, Seed Magazine (for free, of course).

My favourite is American Scientist and, lately, Seed, on the more popular side, and BioScience on a little bit more expert side.

By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:36:14 +0000

Rick: I think the library is as good as any for magazines. And you have access to Nature! I’m nowhere near a university nowadays. Used to take it for granted. *sniff*

You’re probably doing a good thing for the environment by reading at the library. I recycle my magazines by giving them to my friend’s 9-year-old son.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:02:13 +0000

Although I don’t have the budget to buy these magazines on a weekly basis, I do catch “older” copies at the university library. I sit down and read the articles that I haven’t seen online.

I’d say that New Scientist is my fav, but Nature sometimes gets deep down into some issues like no other mag does.
I haven’t had the pleasure of reading any other, so…
Anyone want to buy me a subscription? haha!