And what of the scientists? (New Scientist)

Member Name: imagin8or

Product:	New Scientist
Date:	05/07/01 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Lots and lots of science vacancies, you don't need to know the subject beforehand, high level of detail which scientists can appreciate

Disadvantages: only once a week!

If you're a scientist, don't be put off by the other opinions by non-scientists...

I'm afraid I fall into the scientist category. I've read many opinions of NS from the point of view of non-scientists, and while they are encouraging they aren't for scientists. I'm a physics student at uni at the moment, and if anyone ever brings a NS into the lecture hall they are immediately asked if they can lend it to someone - and you won't see it until the whole row has read something. New Scientist manages to explain things in language understood by all, but to different levels. For example, if a story comes up about a physics topic, I can read it and understand exactly what it's about. If I read a piece on a biological topic, I can still understand it at a low level as it is written such that no prior knowledge is needed. If a lay person reads a piece about the discovery of the Higgs-Boson, they will probably understnad that its important, and that it is part of matter at a quantum level. For a physicist, however, who knows the importance of the Higgs, the piece means something different and the level of understanding is higher. So if you're a scientist, engineer, technologist, etc, you should still get the New Scientist. As far as I see it, the New Scientist is written for scientists, but in a style that lay people can understand.

A further point for scientists is the plethora of science-related vacancies in the back of each issue. Actually, the vacancies *are* the back of the New Scientist as they begin about the middle. In the main they are either for university vacancies in PhDs or MScs or Lectureships, or they are at companies like GlaxoSmithKline etc - commercial scientific R&D companies.

Students Note: Students can get an NS subscription for a reduced price...

Hope this helps.

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