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For working scientists, especially in high-tech fields, there are
only a few crucial nonjournal periodicals to pore over faithfully, and
Scientific American is one of them--its timely and technical features
on everything from paleoarchaeology to neural nets set it apart from
popular science magazines like Discover. Scientific American emphasizes
a wide variety of emerging technologies, giving scientists a chance to
keep up in an increasingly specialized professional world. Innovative
and controversial developments such as gene patenting and the latest
from the unified field gurus are front and center in every issue. It's
not all business, though--regular features like Michael Shermer's
"Skeptic" column, enticing book reviews, brain-busting puzzles, and
James Burke's intellectual-historical meanderings add browsability to
this enduring magazine, in business reporting the frontiers of
scientific exploration for more than 150 years.
