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<blockquote data-quote="Cardinal Aidan" data-source="post: 338471" data-attributes="member: 7018">The criticisms about Sci Am are nothing new, and have a lot to do with the environmental stories they've published. They actually dared to go against the big lie that environmentalism was bad science. They did much better than some of the &quot;harder&quot; journals that gladly accepted some studies that can only be classified as fraud.Aside from that, I think it has a good mix of hard and &quot;pop&quot; science...accessable both to the layperson and a degreed scientist. My one complaint is an editorial &quot;voice&quot; and writing style that leaves me cold. That said, I would dearly love for them to release a multii-cd archive ala the National Geographic one.Discover's quality went noticeably down&nbsp; a few years back, and seems to have come back. Its still not quite to the level it was when first started in the 80s, though.National Geographic is a classic...but seems to average only one interesting story an issue.&nbsp; I prefer to glance through them once or twice a year at the library. They're invaluable as gaming references, though. Their map cd-archive set should be on every GM's shelf, even if the maps could have been better scans.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cardinal Aidan, post: 338471, member: 7018"] The criticisms about Sci Am are nothing new, and have a lot to do with the environmental stories they've published. They actually dared to go against the big lie that environmentalism was bad science. They did much better than some of the "harder" journals that gladly accepted some studies that can only be classified as fraud. Aside from that, I think it has a good mix of hard and "pop" science...accessable both to the layperson and a degreed scientist. My one complaint is an editorial "voice" and writing style that leaves me cold. That said, I would dearly love for them to release a multii-cd archive ala the National Geographic one. Discover's quality went noticeably down a few years back, and seems to have come back. Its still not quite to the level it was when first started in the 80s, though. National Geographic is a classic...but seems to average only one interesting story an issue. I prefer to glance through them once or twice a year at the library. They're invaluable as gaming references, though. Their map cd-archive set should be on every GM's shelf, even if the maps could have been better scans. [/QUOTE]

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