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Scientific American

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Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine. [1]

75 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Albert Graham Ingalls, Alexander Dewdney, Alfred Ely Beach, Alliance for Audited Media, Amateur astronomy, American English, American Scientist, Amos Root, Beijing, Bjørn Lomborg, Book burning, Book of the Month Club, Car, Cato Institute, Charles Allen Munn, China, Chongqing, Communications, Computers, and Networks, Cornell University, Dennis Flanagan, Discover (magazine), Douglas Hofstadter, Encyclopedia Americana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Federation, Gerard Piel, Hans Bethe, Harriet A. Hall, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, IQ Award, Iraq War, James Taranto, John Rennie (editor), Jonathan Piel, Le Scienze, LibraryThing, List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns, List of minor planets: 14001–15000, Mariette DiChristina, Martin Gardner, Metamagical Themas, Michael Shermer, Nature Publishing Group, New Scientist, Orson Desaix Munn, Orson Desaix Munn II, Patrick Michaels, Paul Offit, ..., PBS, Perpetual motion, Popular science, Popular Science, Reason (magazine), Richard Dawkins, Ronald Bailey, Rufus Porter (inventor), Science Online, Scientific American Frontiers, Scientific American Mind, Seth Shostak, Simplified Chinese characters, Springer Nature, Taiwan, The Amateur Scientist, The New York Times, The Skeptical Environmentalist, The Wall Street Journal, Thermonuclear weapon, Time (magazine), Traditional Chinese characters, United States Atomic Energy Commission, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Universal joint. Expand index (25 more) »

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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Albert Graham Ingalls

Albert Graham Ingalls (January 16, 1888–August 13, 1958) was an American scientific editor and amateur astronomer.

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Alexander Dewdney

Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941, in London, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.

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Alfred Ely Beach

Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Alliance for Audited Media

The Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) is a North American non-profit industry organization founded in 1914 by the Association of National Advertisers to help ensure media transparency and trust among advertisers and media companies.

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Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.

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American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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American Scientist

American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

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Amos Root

Amos Ives Root (1839–1923) was an Ohio entrepreneur who developed innovative techniques for beekeeping during the latter 19th century, a period when the practice played an important role in the economy of many communities in the U.S. He founded his own company, which continues in business to the present day.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Bjørn Lomborg

Bjørn Lomborg (born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and President of his think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center.

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Book burning

Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context.

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Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five new hardcover books each month to its members.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

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Charles Allen Munn

Charles Allen Munn (1859-1924), the son of Orson Desaix Munn, publisher of Scientific American, and his wife Julia Augusta Allen, was the editor of Scientific American.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chongqing

Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.

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Communications, Computers, and Networks

The Scientific American special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Network, is a special issue of Scientific American dedicated to articles concerning impending changes to the internet in the period prior to the expansion and mainstreaming of the world wide web via Mosaic and Netscape.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Dennis Flanagan

Dennis Flanagan (July 22, 1919 in New York City – January 14, 2005 in New York City) was the founding editor of the modern Scientific American magazine.

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Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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Encyclopedia Americana

Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Federation

A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central (federal) government.

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Gerard Piel

Gerard Piel (1 March 1915 in Woodmere, N.Y. – 5 September 2004) was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948.

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Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American nuclear physicist who made important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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Harriet A. Hall

Harriet A. Hall (born July 2, 1945) is a U.S. retired family physician, former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and skeptic who writes about alternative medicine and quackery for Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer.

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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately-held Stuttgart-based company which owns publishing companies worldwide.

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IQ Award

The IQ Award is a prize donated by the high-IQ association Mensa to honor people and organisations who have done remarkable contributions to public welfare by an intelligent idea, scientific research about human intelligence or the positive image of intelligence in the public.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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James Taranto

James Taranto (born January 6, 1966) is an American journalist.

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John Rennie (editor)

John Rennie (born 1959) was the seventh editor in chief of Scientific American magazine.

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Jonathan Piel

Jonathan Piel (born 23 November 1938) is an American science journalist and editor.

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Le Scienze

Le Scienze is an Italian monthly science magazine, Italian edition of Scientific American.

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LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata.

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List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns

Over a period of 24 years (January 1957 – December 1980), Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for Scientific American magazine.

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List of minor planets: 14001–15000

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Mariette DiChristina

Mariette DiChristina is the editor-in-chief of the journal Scientific American since December 2009.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles that Douglas Hofstadter wrote for the popular science magazine Scientific American during the early 1980s.

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Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.

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New Scientist

New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.

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Orson Desaix Munn

Orson Desaix Munn (June 11, 1824 – February 28, 1907) was the publisher of Scientific American.

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Orson Desaix Munn II

Orson Desaix Munn II (1883-1958) was an editor and publisher of Scientific American magazine.

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Patrick Michaels

Patrick J. ("Pat") Michaels (born February 15, 1950) is an American climatologist.

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Paul Offit

Paul A. Offit (born 27 March 1951) is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Perpetual motion

Perpetual motion is motion of bodies that continues indefinitely.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey (born November 23, 1953) is an American libertarian science writer and author and editor of books on economics, ecology and biotechnology.

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Rufus Porter (inventor)

Rufus M. Porter (May 1, 1792 – August 13, 1884) was an American painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine.

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Science Online

Science Online was an annual conference held in Durham, North Carolina, that focuses on the role of the internet in science and science communication.

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Scientific American Frontiers

Scientific American Frontiers is an American television program primarily focused on informing the public about new technologies and discoveries in science and medicine.

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Scientific American Mind

Scientific American Mind is a bimonthly American popular science magazine concentrating on psychology, neuroscience, and related fields.

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Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer, currently Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute and former Director of Center for SETI Research when it was a separate department.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.

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Springer Nature

Springer Nature is an academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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The Amateur Scientist

The Amateur Scientist was a column in the Scientific American, and was the definitive "how-to" resource for citizen-scientists for over 72 years (1928–2001), making it the longest running column in Scientific Americans history.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Skeptical Environmentalist

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Verdens sande tilstand, literal translation: The True State of the World) is a book by Danish environmentalist author Bjørn Lomborg, controversial for its claims that overpopulation, declining energy resources, deforestation, species loss, water shortages, certain aspects of global warming, and an assortment of other global environmental issues are unsupported by statistical analysis of the relevant data.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thermonuclear weapon

A thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design using a secondary nuclear fusion stage consisting of implosion tamper, fusion fuel, and spark plug which is bombarded by the energy released by the detonation of a primary fission bomb within, compressing the fuel material (tritium, deuterium or lithium deuteride) and causing a fusion reaction.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters (Pinyin) are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.

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Universal joint

A universal joint (universal coupling, U-joint, Cardan joint, Spicer or Hardy Spicer joint, or Hooke's joint) is a joint or coupling connecting rigid rods whose axes are inclined to each other, and is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American

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