3 ms·
I think the right attitude towards the manner in which this kind of popular science articles are written today is to see them as (potentially good) stories with
by Koshkin 6y ago
I think the right attitude towards the manner in which this kind of popular science articles are written today is to see them as (potentially good) stories with some positive content thrown in. (It hasn’t always been like that, and some people still remember what Scientific American and National Geographic were like back in the day.)
- garyrob 6y agoI used to love Scientific American and subscribed for decades. I had to finally give up maybe 10 years ago; they had become dumbed down and human-story focused to the point that there was no reason to subscribe.
- The_rationalist 6y agoWhere do you find scientific content today? I go directly to the source (arxiv) but this is sad, I would benefit a lot from TLDR that take the gist of papers.
- garyrob 6y agoHonestly, I regularly go to Reddit's r/science and look at the top-rated stuff. If the linked article isn't detailed enough, I go to the original papers it refers to!