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I thought the part informing us that men cannot be inseminated was particularly educational and reflects the high levels of experimental research being conducte

I thought the part informing us that men cannot be inseminated was particularly educational and reflects the high levels of experimental research being conducted on behalf of this fine publication. Though it does perhaps lack a certain rigor, as surely there is nothing to stop men being inseminated. It is merely that they are unable to then become pregnant after insemination, as other visitors to this planet can surely attest from their long running experiments on unlucky country folk. Which will no doubt be the subject of next months exciting issue.

anigbrowl 12y ago
Exactly. I have a chip on my shoulder abot this because up to about 15 years ago SA used to be incredibly good- a solid digest of non-specialist science education for about $100 year. I would happily have paid more, I considered the time and dollar cost involved well worth it for the intellectual exercise it provided. Then they went downmarket in search of a circulation boost and it's been in decline ever since. I stopped reading the month I noticed that I had consumed the new issue in 3 hours rather than the usual 6, and took out an issue from a few months earlier to compare - turned out that they increased the font size and line spacing to produce a magazine with the same number of pages and the same price but about 30% less text. I hope an asteroid lands on their offices and reduces them to a smoking crater in the ground.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago
  I stopped bothering with it ever since they cut the amateur scientist column. I remember they used to cover stuff like sonoluminescence in there - http://techmind.org/sl/ http://techmind.org/sl/ - it was awesome. Let me know if you ever want help working out candidate asteroids and how to achieve the required trajectory adjustments. just found this though :) - https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
  - anigbrowl 12y ago
    Good finds! Feel free to drop me a line via (same name) at gmail - nice to find a fellow spirit.

anigbrowl 12y ago

Exactly. I have a chip on my shoulder abot this because up to about 15 years ago SA used to be incredibly good- a solid digest of non-specialist science education for about $100 year. I would happily have paid more, I considered the time and dollar cost involved well worth it for the intellectual exercise it provided. Then they went downmarket in search of a circulation boost and it's been in decline ever since. I stopped reading the month I noticed that I had consumed the new issue in 3 hours rather than the usual 6, and took out an issue from a few months earlier to compare - turned out that they increased the font size and line spacing to produce a magazine with the same number of pages and the same price but about 30% less text. I hope an asteroid lands on their offices and reduces them to a smoking crater in the ground.

lotsofmangos 12y ago
I stopped bothering with it ever since they cut the amateur scientist column. I remember they used to cover stuff like sonoluminescence in there - http://techmind.org/sl/ http://techmind.org/sl/ - it was awesome. Let me know if you ever want help working out candidate asteroids and how to achieve the required trajectory adjustments. just found this though :) - https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist https://archive.org/details/TheAmateurScientist
- anigbrowl 12y ago
  Good finds! Feel free to drop me a line via (same name) at gmail - nice to find a fellow spirit.