Comment by morninglight

Scientific American needs to look in a mirror.

There was a time when they gave meaningful direction to young readers.

Albert G. Ingalls, "The Back Yard Astronomer." Martin Gardner, "Mathematical Games" C. L. Stong. "The Amateur Scientist"

After Stongs death, SciAm displayed a halfhearted attempt to keep a few back pages, but around 2000 they dumped the whole idea of citizen science.

Despite the launch of a nationwide "Maker Movement" SciAm's new management couldn't understand why anyone would care. Today, the publication has made itself irrelevant.

This generation has found a new outlet for DIY science and it is called YouTube. Maybe you should check it out. You might learn something.

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