Excellent Magazine for Gift Giving.
January 31,2011
I sent a Discovery subscription to my Army son. A good magazine gives much enjoyment, particularly when you are far from home.
Excellent Magazine for Gift Giving.
January 31,2011
I sent a Discovery subscription to my Army son. A good magazine gives much enjoyment, particularly when you are far from home.
Discover Magazine Subscription
November 26,2010
The Magazine has less pages than it used to. The information in the Magazine is great and is very easy for the average person to understand. Not like other science magazines that you need to be a rocket scientist to understand.
Discover Magazine Subscription
November 26,2010
The Magazine has less pages than it used to. The information in the Magazine is great and is very easy for the average person to understand. Not like other science magazines that you need to be a rocket scientist to understand.
Crazy informative
November 3,2010
DISCOVER is an excellent source of scientific information presented in a easy to comprehend entertaining prose.
Kenneth Haft
Glen Allen
Kenneth Haft
Glen Allen
Crazy informative
November 3,2010
DISCOVER is an excellent source of scientific information presented in a easy to comprehend entertaining prose.
Kenneth Haft
Glen Allen
Kenneth Haft
Glen Allen
Intresting Magazine
October 31,2010
My husband and grandson love this magazine. It's full of innovative ideas and products.
Intresting Magazine
October 31,2010
My husband and grandson love this magazine. It's full of innovative ideas and products.
For Thirty Years, DISCOVER has Brought Me the Universe.
October 9,2010
Discover Magazine.
Picture it; Arkansas, October, 1980. I was a senior in High School, raising twins, and contemplating where the money for college would come from. I had little time or money for distractions, yet there, right next to my monthly fix of Omni was an intriguing little magazine called Discover.
Dedicated to solid science, Discover is none the less written to be accessible to non-geeks, in clear concise English. If it has to use a scientific term, it does, but takes care to put it in context or define it. And it was fascinating. I was hooked.
Over the years, the world has changed. Back then, there were nine planets, and 37 moons. Now there are eight planets, five dwarf planets, and Saturn alone has over 65 moons, and there are planets around other stars, including Gliese 581g, the first extra terrestrial planet of earthling compatible size and in the "Goldilocks Zone" (or ‘just right.') And Discover Magazine kept me informed.
In 1980, Voyager 1 swept past Saturn, and the pictures were here. The Inflationary model of the early universe was proposed, and made understandable. In 1981, the first Computer virus was released, and AIDS was first reported. In 1982, Insulin was made by genetically modified bacteria, and Barney Clark received the first artificial heart. In 1983 the first commercial cell phone network was established in the US. Discover reported it. That same year, the key to sequencing DNA was discovered (PCR) and the Tevaron collider comes online and the HIV virus was isolated twice. In 1984, the link between Ulcers and the bacterium H. pylori was discovered. 1985 saw the Ozone Hole detected, the Buckminsterfullerene sequence of carbon (Bucky Balls) was discovered. In 1986, we found high temperature superconductors. We also had to face the tragedies of Challenger, and Chernobyl, and Discover was there to report, to put things in perspective, and to quiet our fears. In 1987 Prozac was approved by the FDA, and my life got a lot better. That year we saw a supernova. 1988, Internet viruses were joined by ‘worms', and Prodigy begins online customer service. 1989 saw the first of many false starts on Cold Fusion. In better news, Voyager 2 flew past Neptune, the last planet in the solar system (at that time. Pluto was still a planet, but was closer in.)
1990, a new decade saw a new kind of telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and even with severe problems, it opened the universe. That same year global warming was linked to human activity. It was a fact then, and it is now. The next year, 1991 Carbon Nanotubes are discovered, and new vistas in material science opened up. The Galileo probe takes a first look at an asteroid. 1992 was a big year as planets are found to be orbiting pulsars, causing the primary to ‘wobble'. 1993 marked the repair of the Hubble telescope and we saw what we had been missing. Our universe got much bigger, and our view of it much better. 1994, Fermat's last theorem was solved, a big deal for Math Geeks, the FDA approved the Flavr Savr tomato, a genetically modified food, a really big deal for the debate on genetic manipulation, and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter, a big deal for everyone. 1995 Top quark was discovered, expanding the bestiary of subatomic particles, and a planet was discovered orbiting a sunlike star. 1996 was a big year. Dolly the sheep was cloned from an adult sheep, and scientists (maybe) discovered fossil life in rocks from Mars. Big Blue beat chess grand master Garry Kasparov in 1997, Neanderthal DNA was isolated, and Sojourner lands a rover on Mars, and the little fellow begins exploring. 1998, and the universe becomes clearer, and weirder, as Dark Energy is discovered. Human Stem cells are isolated, presaging a raging debate, and a study demonstrates that adult brains grow new neurons, giving us a use for those stem cells. When we got ready to party like it was 1999, West Nile virus invaded the US, and dogs received lab-grown bladders.
Y2K came with a lot of hype, and left without so much as a whimper. 2000 saw the Human Genome project completed, and the first plant genome sequenced. In 2001, Wikipedia was introduced, and nationwide, teachers shuddered, not knowing why. Astronomers pierce the cosmic dark ages, getting a clearer picture further back in time than ever seen before, and President Bush cripples medical exploration by limiting stem cell research. In 2002 NASA detects water in ice on Mars. Suddenly, life out there seems much more likely. The SARS pandemic strikes, alerting us to how very unprepared we are for this sort of disaster. Another shuttle tragedy mars 2003 as Columbia burns up on reentry. In better news WMAP space craft maps the early cosmos. In 2004 ancient "Hobbit people" are discovered in Indonesia, SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize, and the Tsunami in Indonesia reminds us of how powerless we are in the face of nature. In 2005 the Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn, penetrating its dense atmosphere and revealing lakes of methane and seasons. The first face transplant was performed, and Eris, a planet larger than Pluto is found orbiting beyond Neptune, bringing the planet count to ten. The very next year, Pluto is demoted to dwarf planet, along with Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Ceres. Pluto is discovered to have two more moons other than it's partner Charon, Nix and Hydra. In 2007 soft tissue extracted from a Tyrannosaurus Rex bone. Further, more proof of their connection to birds is demonstrated as it is demonstrated she was pregnant, and had "egg bones" inside her femurs, a trait shared with modern birds. Skin cells were converted to stem cells, putting a partial end run around Bush's stupidity. In 2008, the large Hadron Collider fails to create a black hole that destroys the earth; in fact, it fails to start. However Scientists decode the Wooly Mammoth Genome. In 2009 we had another pandemic, Swine Flu, and Ardi displaces Lucy as the oldest humanoid ancestor. And that brings us to this year. 2010. The Neanderthal Genome is sequenced, and synthetic bacterium are created from scratch.
What a wild ride it has been. I am still waiting for my flying car like the Jetsons had, but at least I got a communicator like Captain Kirk's. The influence of the World Wide Web has had incalculable impact on every aspect of life, and my cellphone has more computational power than the Apple I was using in 1980. The Solar system has gone from 9 to 10 to 8 planets, but it has come alive as we discover each moon is unique and wondrous, from the volcanic Io and Enceladus, to the captured planetoid Triton around Neptune. The human family tree has grown and branched, and we now know Neanderthals are not entirely extinct; there is Neanderthal DNA in me.
All of this from my monthly fix of science and wonder, Discover Magazine.
Recommended:
Yes
Picture it; Arkansas, October, 1980. I was a senior in High School, raising twins, and contemplating where the money for college would come from. I had little time or money for distractions, yet there, right next to my monthly fix of Omni was an intriguing little magazine called Discover.
Dedicated to solid science, Discover is none the less written to be accessible to non-geeks, in clear concise English. If it has to use a scientific term, it does, but takes care to put it in context or define it. And it was fascinating. I was hooked.
Over the years, the world has changed. Back then, there were nine planets, and 37 moons. Now there are eight planets, five dwarf planets, and Saturn alone has over 65 moons, and there are planets around other stars, including Gliese 581g, the first extra terrestrial planet of earthling compatible size and in the "Goldilocks Zone" (or ‘just right.') And Discover Magazine kept me informed.
In 1980, Voyager 1 swept past Saturn, and the pictures were here. The Inflationary model of the early universe was proposed, and made understandable. In 1981, the first Computer virus was released, and AIDS was first reported. In 1982, Insulin was made by genetically modified bacteria, and Barney Clark received the first artificial heart. In 1983 the first commercial cell phone network was established in the US. Discover reported it. That same year, the key to sequencing DNA was discovered (PCR) and the Tevaron collider comes online and the HIV virus was isolated twice. In 1984, the link between Ulcers and the bacterium H. pylori was discovered. 1985 saw the Ozone Hole detected, the Buckminsterfullerene sequence of carbon (Bucky Balls) was discovered. In 1986, we found high temperature superconductors. We also had to face the tragedies of Challenger, and Chernobyl, and Discover was there to report, to put things in perspective, and to quiet our fears. In 1987 Prozac was approved by the FDA, and my life got a lot better. That year we saw a supernova. 1988, Internet viruses were joined by ‘worms', and Prodigy begins online customer service. 1989 saw the first of many false starts on Cold Fusion. In better news, Voyager 2 flew past Neptune, the last planet in the solar system (at that time. Pluto was still a planet, but was closer in.)
1990, a new decade saw a new kind of telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and even with severe problems, it opened the universe. That same year global warming was linked to human activity. It was a fact then, and it is now. The next year, 1991 Carbon Nanotubes are discovered, and new vistas in material science opened up. The Galileo probe takes a first look at an asteroid. 1992 was a big year as planets are found to be orbiting pulsars, causing the primary to ‘wobble'. 1993 marked the repair of the Hubble telescope and we saw what we had been missing. Our universe got much bigger, and our view of it much better. 1994, Fermat's last theorem was solved, a big deal for Math Geeks, the FDA approved the Flavr Savr tomato, a genetically modified food, a really big deal for the debate on genetic manipulation, and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter, a big deal for everyone. 1995 Top quark was discovered, expanding the bestiary of subatomic particles, and a planet was discovered orbiting a sunlike star. 1996 was a big year. Dolly the sheep was cloned from an adult sheep, and scientists (maybe) discovered fossil life in rocks from Mars. Big Blue beat chess grand master Garry Kasparov in 1997, Neanderthal DNA was isolated, and Sojourner lands a rover on Mars, and the little fellow begins exploring. 1998, and the universe becomes clearer, and weirder, as Dark Energy is discovered. Human Stem cells are isolated, presaging a raging debate, and a study demonstrates that adult brains grow new neurons, giving us a use for those stem cells. When we got ready to party like it was 1999, West Nile virus invaded the US, and dogs received lab-grown bladders.
Y2K came with a lot of hype, and left without so much as a whimper. 2000 saw the Human Genome project completed, and the first plant genome sequenced. In 2001, Wikipedia was introduced, and nationwide, teachers shuddered, not knowing why. Astronomers pierce the cosmic dark ages, getting a clearer picture further back in time than ever seen before, and President Bush cripples medical exploration by limiting stem cell research. In 2002 NASA detects water in ice on Mars. Suddenly, life out there seems much more likely. The SARS pandemic strikes, alerting us to how very unprepared we are for this sort of disaster. Another shuttle tragedy mars 2003 as Columbia burns up on reentry. In better news WMAP space craft maps the early cosmos. In 2004 ancient "Hobbit people" are discovered in Indonesia, SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize, and the Tsunami in Indonesia reminds us of how powerless we are in the face of nature. In 2005 the Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn, penetrating its dense atmosphere and revealing lakes of methane and seasons. The first face transplant was performed, and Eris, a planet larger than Pluto is found orbiting beyond Neptune, bringing the planet count to ten. The very next year, Pluto is demoted to dwarf planet, along with Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Ceres. Pluto is discovered to have two more moons other than it's partner Charon, Nix and Hydra. In 2007 soft tissue extracted from a Tyrannosaurus Rex bone. Further, more proof of their connection to birds is demonstrated as it is demonstrated she was pregnant, and had "egg bones" inside her femurs, a trait shared with modern birds. Skin cells were converted to stem cells, putting a partial end run around Bush's stupidity. In 2008, the large Hadron Collider fails to create a black hole that destroys the earth; in fact, it fails to start. However Scientists decode the Wooly Mammoth Genome. In 2009 we had another pandemic, Swine Flu, and Ardi displaces Lucy as the oldest humanoid ancestor. And that brings us to this year. 2010. The Neanderthal Genome is sequenced, and synthetic bacterium are created from scratch.
What a wild ride it has been. I am still waiting for my flying car like the Jetsons had, but at least I got a communicator like Captain Kirk's. The influence of the World Wide Web has had incalculable impact on every aspect of life, and my cellphone has more computational power than the Apple I was using in 1980. The Solar system has gone from 9 to 10 to 8 planets, but it has come alive as we discover each moon is unique and wondrous, from the volcanic Io and Enceladus, to the captured planetoid Triton around Neptune. The human family tree has grown and branched, and we now know Neanderthals are not entirely extinct; there is Neanderthal DNA in me.
All of this from my monthly fix of science and wonder, Discover Magazine.
Recommended:
Yes
I look forward to my Discover magazine
September 27,2010
Every month I look forward to receiving my Discover magazine. It's covers so many different areas and is full of up-to-date information. It is a truly fascinating magazine. It's written in terms that anyone can read (even if you have to look up a word or two).