Popular Science isn’t Make Magazine, which more than got me over the angst I’d been harboring since Scientific American killed its Amateur Scientist column. Though really, it died when C.L. Strong handed it over the next guy. PS isn’t Wired, either, which is still necessary reading to get the tech-zeitgeist, though it’s either gotten more jaded as time passed or jade no longer looks a cool as it used to. I suspect the former, as a reaction to the realization the cutting edge has moved on somewhere.

Even still, I read PopSci every month (and Popular Mechanics too), and though it gets thinner and thinner, what’s left is still good for skimming through to see what they’re deeming…well…pop. Continue reading →