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PopSci
April 30th 16, 02:42 AM
Note the note - then jump to the Youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU

If you think this is bad, you should hear the BS
this guy spurts regarding the "Space Pencil" among
about 15 more Jr. High boners. He often makes Bill
Nye actually sound like a "science guy."

I despise "Pop-Sci" and pop-scientists

Byker
May 1st 16, 12:34 AM
"PopSci" wrote in message ...
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> I despise "Pop-Sci" and pop-scientists

Does anyone remember the "old" Scientific American, that had very scholarly,
in-depth "highbrow" articles on par with those in the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA)?

In PSYCH 1B during my college freshman year, I had to write papers regarding
the following:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-social-order-of-chickens/

There was also one entitled, "Population Controls in 18th-Century Europe",
which was accompanied by this famous illustration by William Hogarth

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