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.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
So nobody made any sandwiches?
I think my roommate at college had that issue of Playboy.
Mr. niteowl77
Now I remember why I let my subscription lapse 30 years ago ...
Where’s my flying car? I want my flying car!
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.
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
It's proper grammar to refer to someone of unknown gender using male terms. Don't like it? Take it up with Webster.
The technology exists, but practical applications have been 10 years away for 20-30 years or more.
I would hardly call it a ‘general strike’ - and thanks for telegraphing your corporate leanings.
I loved it in the 1970’s. I didn’t know they were still in business.
So, it’s Popular Pussy Science now.
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 . . . .
And I still got my sammich.
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?
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?
I bet I do not know ONE person who subscribes to or purchases Popular Science.
I wonder what their distribution is.
Probably a lot of pubic schools and colleges.
This magazine has changed for the worse over the years due to a liberal agenda. Now I know why.
I want women to do a week without men’s inventions.
Dare ya!
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