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Meta - I only recently discovered Quanta Magazine, and I'm very much enjoying it. Many years ago I abandoned Scientific American when it became overtly politic
by CWuestefeld 6y ago
Meta - I only recently discovered Quanta Magazine, and I'm very much enjoying it.
Many years ago I abandoned Scientific American when it became overtly politicized. I don't necessarily disagree with the values they demonstrated, but part of the reason I enjoy reading science publications is for the opportunity to get away from political polarization for a while, and their editorial change took that enjoyment away from me.
So I left SA, and found American Scientist magazine, which up until the last issue or two had maintained a separation from politics. However, they've now become explicitly political, as demonstrated in conversation here on HN about a recent article [1]. Not only have they dragged in the woke politics, but if this issue, and this article especially, are any indication, they've also drastically affected the quality of the science reporting.
In disgust from AS's capitulation, I looked around for other sources of science journalism that could deliver something a couple notches more in-depth than, say, Discover or Pop Mech, but still stay aloof from politics. So far Quanta Magazine is the only thing I've found, but they are pretty good.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25799514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25799514
- weberer 6y agoI've noticed that too about Scientific American. Its like circa 2015 a switch flipped and they became a completely different magazine. Anyway I found it much more informative to just go straight to the source in most cases and subscribing to peer-reviewed scientific journals. For example, can select any subject in Nature and get a RSS feed https://www.nature.com/subjects https://www.nature.com/subjects There are various open access journals in PLoS https://plos.org/#journals https://plos.org/#journals https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/find-and-read-articles#loc-new-articles-by-rss https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/find-and-read-articles#l... As well as many others listed in the Database of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/ https://doaj.org/
- quickthrower2 6y agoThe style of this article reminds me of New Scientist. You might like that publication.