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The women of Popular Science are not working today - Here's Why
Popular Science ^ | 3/8/2017 | Popular Science Staff

Posted on 03/09/2017 1:00:17 PM PST by Buffalo Bob

You may notice that our website is looking a little light today. We’d like to explain. Today is "A Day Without a Woman," a general strike for women's rights and equality—so many of the women of PopSci aren't working.

And that means the website is going to be pretty quiet: While we get an awful lot of emails assuming we're a bunch of "sirs," the majority of the staff here is female.

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To: Buffalo Bob

So nobody made any sandwiches?


21 posted on 03/09/2017 1:19:30 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: Buffalo Bob
"The women of Popular Science"

I think my roommate at college had that issue of Playboy.

Mr. niteowl77

22 posted on 03/09/2017 1:19:56 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: Buffalo Bob

Now I remember why I let my subscription lapse 30 years ago ...


23 posted on 03/09/2017 1:21:20 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Buffalo Bob

Where’s my flying car? I want my flying car!


24 posted on 03/09/2017 1:21:33 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: fireforeffect

Fair enough.

Wonder if they missed their schedules because of the company wide day off? Maybe their advertisers weren’t happy.

Did everyone get the day off or just management? Not good to shut the whole business down for a day.

Out in the free market world, a missed day of productivity might hurt business.


25 posted on 03/09/2017 1:22:12 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Buffalo Bob

My dad subscribed to it, and as a kid I found it very interesting. A few years ago I picked up a copy and it was all about glow-bull warming. That was it, enough.

It should be renamed Fake Science Digest


26 posted on 03/09/2017 1:22:41 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: Buffalo Bob
While we get an awful lot of emails assuming we're a bunch of "sirs," the majority of the staff here is female.

It's proper grammar to refer to someone of unknown gender using male terms. Don't like it? Take it up with Webster.

27 posted on 03/09/2017 1:24:23 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: right way right
Where’s my flying car? I want my flying car!

The technology exists, but practical applications have been 10 years away for 20-30 years or more.

28 posted on 03/09/2017 1:28:15 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
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To: Buffalo Bob

I would hardly call it a ‘general strike’ - and thanks for telegraphing your corporate leanings.


29 posted on 03/09/2017 1:29:21 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
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To: right way right
Video: 4 Real Flying Cars That Actually Fly
30 posted on 03/09/2017 1:31:12 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: IronJack

I loved it in the 1970’s. I didn’t know they were still in business.


31 posted on 03/09/2017 1:31:21 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Buffalo Bob

So, it’s Popular Pussy Science now.


32 posted on 03/09/2017 1:31:49 PM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Buffalo Bob

I used to view Popular Science as an informative publication where I didn’t have to worry about politics creeping into the articles. Oh well . . . .


33 posted on 03/09/2017 1:34:28 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Buffalo Bob
I'm so impressed, the broads a "Popular" Science didn't show up for work today while their lives were made possible and supported by the producers at the unpopular sciences of capitalism, economics and the free market.

And I still got my sammich.

34 posted on 03/09/2017 1:34:51 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: All
I subscribed for decades, read cover-to cover, even the classified ads in back, even ordered kits and parts and plans from those little ads. (One year I even had my own ad in there selling a little metal testing kit I invented and manufactured, sold quite a few, but quickly saturated that particular market).

Then about 20 years ago I quit subscribing, and bought an occasional one off the news stand if there was an article in it I wanted to read.

For the last ten years I have checked the cover every time I passed by the magazine rack and saw a new issue. Occasionally picked one up if there was something on the cover that seemed interesting. Look inside to find it is either propaganda or marketing hype. There is no science in it anymore.

Same with Popular Mechanics.

I wonder if there is any correlation with the lack of useful content and females taking over the publication?

35 posted on 03/09/2017 1:35:52 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Buffalo Bob
Popular Science, Scientific American, National Geographic, the Science Times, have all gone in the crapper. Partially political nonsense, but also a focus on lightweight crap (see the Bill Nye cover above).

The Science Times (NYT Tuesday section) used to be about physics, astronomy, black holes, fusion, etc. Now every thin section is filled with sociology (the science of white men causing problems) and global warming and threatened lichens and women's issues in the third world. Blech.

For me, Nat Geo was the last holdout, because I was willing to let them slide on their hippy-tude since I expect it of them. But the last few issues I received nailed it shut - one was an entire issue on global gender diversity ("this girl in Bali suffers from non-acceptance from her family who mistakenly believe that her penis makes her a male.") They followed this issue with one that featured a cover story on hipsters taking selfies in nature. Seriously, it was a celebration of white hipsters taking selfies in the grand canyon or a reef in Guatamala - lightweight nonsense and agenda drivel.

Is there a current periodical I can pick up to read about development in space exploration or particle physics? One without celebrity drivel by the likes of Bill Nye and Neil deAdministrator Tyson?

36 posted on 03/09/2017 1:40:12 PM PST by dead
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To: VanDeKoik

I bet I do not know ONE person who subscribes to or purchases Popular Science.

I wonder what their distribution is.


37 posted on 03/09/2017 1:43:49 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF
I wonder what their distribution is.

Probably a lot of pubic schools and colleges.

38 posted on 03/09/2017 1:50:50 PM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Buffalo Bob

This magazine has changed for the worse over the years due to a liberal agenda. Now I know why.


39 posted on 03/09/2017 1:51:57 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Navy Patriot

I want women to do a week without men’s inventions.

Dare ya!


40 posted on 03/09/2017 1:52:28 PM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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