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I randomly searched the magazine's archives and found lots of articles on society, culture, and history in any year I looked. Any narrative that the magazine us
by lovelearning 4y ago
I randomly searched the magazine's archives and found lots of articles on society, culture, and history in any year I looked. Any narrative that the magazine used to restrict itself to natural sciences and engineering seems false to me.
1906 snow sculptures; "money of savages"
1918 reorganization of a government health department
1929 construction in Washington and the role of the US Congress
1951 human resources of the US
1961 effects of air pollution on public health
1971 an early city in Iran
1980 census; whaling
1992 health care reform
- jgalt212 4y agoI think you proved your own argument. The rate of opinion pieces in the SciAm recently seems to be north of 10X what it used to be.
- lovelearning 4y agoYour, and GP's, comments gave me the impression that you thought humanities weren't touched by SciAm until recently. I think I proved that narrative wrong. It wasn't my narrative.
- jgalt212 4y agoUnder your very broad definition of touched, I'll concede the point.