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Worth the trip to youtube. Isn't there an American Scientist magazine? 
How does it compare?

Eric Siegel wrote:
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> I heartily second Dennis' recommendation of New Scientist. The writing 
> is brilliant, lucid, and even funny and it somehow manages to have 
> over a dozen substantive articles every week with nearly no 
> advertising (and what advertising there is is of the benign British 
> variety). You also get access to a superb web site of current science 
> news and a complete archive. They have been publishing for just over 
> 50 years. I have been taking New Scientist for about five years, and 
> one caveat is that they *do* build up into piles, as badly as New 
> Yorker magazines. I have partially read issues in stacks all over the 
> house. Here is a great clip of Richard Dawkins talking about New 
> Scientist after being rebuked by Neal Tyson for being too barbed in 
> his rhetoric. Dawkins starts at about 2 minutes and I would suggest 
> not listening at work.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik
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