Comment on Scientific Exposure

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Remember that 80s magazine OMNI?
  Science, tech, sci-fi, Mensa-caliber games… by the very same Bob Guccione who published Penthouse!

  Every issue had an in-depth interview with a prominent and interesting scientist, figures like Alan Guth or Luc Montagnier or Morris Berman.
  One issue was a little more off-beat, the interview was with an anthropologist, whose student life and career went like this:

  Attending the University Of Montana in Missoula, this student loved drinking every day, so he asked the question - “What’s a relatively easy major with little math, that will interfere the least with my drinking?” - and landed on Anthropology.

  After graduation, the next question became - “What will I do my thesis about?” - a friend gave him the vague advice to do it on something he knew or was passionate about, and like a “eureka” moment, it hit him: “I’m gonna research drinking culture, bars!”

  And so, he became one of the rarefied few for whom drinking on the job was basically a requirement!

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  • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omni! I remember being a teenager, and eagerly getting my subscription copy every month in the mail. In fact, i think i still have them in a box in the garage.

    I thought Omni was awesome, and that they did a good job of trying to make science more accessible to people. I just wish that they had succeeded.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Omni was more like entertainment, vouge. science journals are the ones publishing research papers. theres a distinction between research papers, and article sof resarch, which is just laymen explanation for the layperson.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OMNi was not a scientific journal.

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, I am aware that OMNI was an entertainment magazine, I just wanted to drift towards a general science direction aiming at the “blackjack and hookers” punchline, and “bars” was the nearest I could stick the landing.

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that A’s Archive?

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• GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A journal about the science of blackjack and hookers?

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sure why not

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