Sad, enjoyed the monthly endeavors of Gus Wilson and his assistant Stan in the Model Garage as they solved peoples automotive problems the old fashion before computers and new part boltet oners.
It went Hard Left .
Bye .
There goes another of the magazines my dad used to subscribe to. He used to look forward to his monthly Scientific American, too - that’s turned into pure trash which regularly flouts science to promote left-wing ideology. At least Popular Science avoided that fate and chose the nobler option of just dying.
Like Scientific American, lost their readers when they lost the science.
One Christmas Break, I checked out the New Yorker bound copies from 1941-1942. It was amazing to see how the country changed. I wish I could get the GQ magazines from the 1980’s.
Just like Popular Science, I ceased Scientific American many, many moons ago. I used to LOVE Scientific American. Some of the articles were above my current understanding, so it pushed me to read and research. Once there was no more ‘science’ in Scientific American, so too did I stop sending them any $$$. It is amusing that Sci American, Nat Geo, etc will send offers to restart with drastically reduced prices. If they send a return envelope with the postage already paid, I cut up everything in the offer, all the pages, and mail it back. Someday, perhaps, they will get the message.
When I was a kid many years ago, I visited my grandparent’s house in Pennsylvania. They had boxes of Popular Science and Popular mechanics from the 1930’s up until the war. They belonged to my great uncle who I never met, who was machine-gunned parachuting somewhere into France.
I will always remember this from that magazine...
POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
It was a fun read for a kid back in the 60’s and early 70’s…a magazine that you, your dad and your uncle would all read. I’m sure it all became propaganda, like everything in the new perverse America. That and the end of print magazines generally undoubtedly did it in. But 50 years ago, it was rather fun and informative.
Dang. I was waiting for the story to come out, “Build your own AI sex robot”.
Popular Science and Radio Shack,two more parts of my youth gone...
Popular science was cool before they went liberal.
My late father had some longterm subscription that continued for years after he passed. I'd enjoyed the magazine since I'd been able to read, until the nitwit editor of the time devoted an entire issue to the grifter Al Gore and the global warming hoax. I let my mother know that she need not renew the subscription when it came up. Their circulation numbers were always well behind rival Popular Mechanics, and print has been in a long downward spiral, but I regard this in part as suicide.
For reasons I don’t recall, I never really liked Popular Science.
A significant amount of “science”, particularly medical “science” although no discipline has been spared, has devolved into political “science”.
Young Americans don't know what their missing.. :(
I wonder who's going to keep the electricity on when all the "boomers" are gone..?
Along with Scientific American, Popular Science went woke, lost track of actual science and became a disposable leftist agenda booster. Unreadable eventually.
Today they're called "truss plates." I can't remember what they called them in the Popular Science article, which I think was in their New Ideas From The Inventors column.
I can't find a linkable image of one, but you can google it.