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Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Prize-winners being featured since its inception. In print since 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Scientific American is owned by Springer Nature, which is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. History Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large-format New York City newspaper was released on August 28, 1845. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology. It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into a monthly in November 1921. Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach, son of media magnate Moses Yale Beach, and Orson Desaix Munn, a mere ten months after founding it. Editors and co-owners from the Yale family included Frederick C. Beach and his son, Stanley Yale Beach, and from the Munn family, Charles Allen Munn and his nephew, Orson Desaix Munn II. Until 1948, it remained owned by the families under Munn & Company. Under Orson Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the 20th-century incarnation of Popular Science. In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine. Thus the partners—publisher Gerard Piel, editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller Jr. essentially created a new magazine. Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold to the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany, which has owned it until the Springer-Nature merger. In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Holtzbrinck's Nature Publishing Group division. Donald Miller died in December 1998, Gerard Piel in September 2004 and Dennis Flanagan in January 2005. Mariette DiChristina became editor-in-chief after John Rennie stepped down in June 2009, and stepped down herself in September 2019. In April 2020, Laura Helmuth assumed the role of editor-in-chief. The magazine is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. In 2009 the publisher notified collegiate libraries that yearly subscription prices for the magazine would increase by nearly 500% for print and 50% for online access to $1,500 yearly. In 2013, Danielle N. Lee, a female scientist who blogged at Scientific American, was called a "whore" in an email by an editor at the science website Biology Online after refusing to write professional content without compensation. When Lee, outraged about the email, wrote a rebuttal on her Scientific American blog, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina, removed the post. DiChristina cited legal reasons for removing the blog. The editor at Biology Online was fired after the incident. The controversy widened in the ensuing days. The magazine's blog editor, Bora Zivkovic, was the subject of allegations of sexual harassment by another blogger, Monica Byrne. Although the alleged incident had occurred about a year earlier, editor Mariette DiChristina informed readers that the incident had been investigated and resolved to Byrne's satisfaction. However, the incident involving Lee had prompted Byrne to reveal the identity of Zivkovic, following the latter's support of Lee. Zivkovic admitted the incident with Byrne had taken place. He apologized to Byrne, and referred to the incident as "singular", stating that his behavior was not "engaged in before or since". Zivkovic resigned from the board of Science Online, the popular science blogging conference that he co-founded with Anton Zuiker. Following Zivkovic's admission, several female bloggers, including other bloggers for the magazine, wrote their own accounts, alleging additional incidents of sexual harassment, although none of these accounts were independently investigated. A day after these new revelations, Zivkovic resigned from his position at Scientific American. Offices of the Scientific American have included 37 Park Row in Manhattan and the Woolworth Building in 1915 when it was just finished two years earlier in 1913. The Woolworth Building was at the time one of the first skyscrapers in the city and the tallest one in the world. International editions Scientific American published its first foreign edition in 1890, the Spanish-language La America Cientifica. Publication was suspended in 1905, and another 63 years would pass before another foreign-language edition appeared: In 1968, an Italian edition, Le Scienze, was launched, and a Japanese edition, Nikkei Science, followed three years later. A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science, in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, in Germany in 1978. A Russian edition V Mire Nauki (Russian: «В мире науки») was launched in the Soviet Union in 1983, and continues in the present-day Russian Federation. Kexue (科学, "Science" in Chinese), a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979, was the first Western magazine published in the People's Republic of China. Founded in Chongqing, the simplified Chinese magazine was transferred to Beijing in 2001. Later in 2005, a newer edition, Global Science (环球科学), was published instead of Kexue, which shut down due to financial problems. A traditional Chinese edition, known as Scientist, was introduced to Taiwan in 2002. The Hungarian edition Tudomány existed between 1984 and 1992. In 1986, an Arabic edition, Oloom Magazine, was published. In 2002, a Portuguese edition was launched in Brazil. The Spanish edition ended in 2023 due to the worsening of economic conditions. Today, Scientific American publishes 17 foreign-language editions around the globe: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Heb.... Discover the Scientific American popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Scientific American books.
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The Truth About Trust
David DeSteno“This one’s worth reading. Trust me.” Daniel Gilbert, PhD, bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness Issues of trust come attached to almost every human interaction, yet fe...
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The Green Beret Survival Guide
Brian MorrisToday's society is one in which we, as individuals, are constantly barraged by the threat of domestic terrorism. The everpresent fear for your safety and the safety of those we lov...
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The Zuni and the American Imagination
Eliza McFeelyA bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itselfThe Zuni society existed for centuries before the...
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Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877
Various AuthorsEven those whose knowledge of the customs of the Orient extends no further than a recollection of the contents of that timehonored story book, the "Arabian Nights", are doubtless a...
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To the Greatest Heights
Vanessa O'BrienThis riveting and uplifting memoir by Vanessa O’Brien, recordbreaking AmericanBritish explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world’s highest mountains. Long...
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Proceedings American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Academy of Forensic SciencesThe 66th Annual meeting Proceedings for the 2014 AAFS meeting, in Seattle WA.
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The Conscious Universe
Dean Radin, Ph.D.This mythshattering book explains the evidence for the veracity of psychic phenomena, uniting the teachings of mystics, the theories of quantum physics, and the latest in hightech ...
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Red Earth, White Lies
Vine Deloria Jr.Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the bestselling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the anc...
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Escape From Kathmandu
Kim Stanley RobinsonKim Stanley Robinson's Escape From Kathmandu is a lighthearted fantasy tribute to the world of extreme mountain climbing follows the adventures of two American expatriates living ...
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The GMO Deception
Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber & Ralph NaderSeventyfive percent of processed foods on supermarket shelvesfrom soda to soup, crackers to condimentscontain genetically engineered ingredients. The longterm effects of these food...
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The Language of Butterflies
Wendy WilliamsIn this “deeply personal and lyrical book” (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most...
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010
Tim FolgerFreeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing.
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The Farfarers
Farley MowatIn this bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America, offering an unforgettable portrait of the Alba...
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Privileged Hands
Geerat J. VermeijHis fingers move across the surface of a shell, feeling the ridges and contours, searching for clues, gathering information unnoticed by the untrained eye. For Dr. Geerat Vermeij'...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
Various AuthorsJames Prescott Joule was born at Salford, on Christmas Eve of the year 1818. His father and his grandfather before him were brewers, and the business, in due course, descended to M...
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Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870
Various AuthorsIt has frequently been urged as an objection against the twin screw system that the double set of engines, four steam cylinders with duplicates of all the working parts called for ...
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Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1
Various AuthorsScientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine. It has a long history of presenting scientific information on a monthly basis to the gen...
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Blasphemy
Douglas PrestonIn Douglas Preston's Blasphemy, the world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itsel...
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100 Things You Can Do to Stay Fit and Healthy
Scott Douglas & Phil WhartonLooking to revamp and revitalize your fitness and overall wellbeing, but not sure where to start? Well look no further than running guru and health expert Scott Douglas’s 100 Thing...
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The Science of Serial Killers
Meg Hafdahl & Kelly FlorenceDiscover the reallife inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more. Gothic media moguls Kell...
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Smoke Signals
Martin A LeeA bestselling author of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story a panoramic, characterdriven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimension...
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A Scientific Revolution
Ralph H. Hruban & William LinderA prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women. Johns Hopkins University, one of the p...
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Unbound
Richard L Currier & Tom GjeltenLike Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern ti...
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Final Theory
Mark AlpertA science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theoryand keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Don’t miss the “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) doomsd...
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Mean Mothers
Peg StreepDrawn from research and the reallife experiences of adult daughters, Mean Mothers illuminates one of the last cultural taboos: what happens when a woman does not or cannot love her...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
Various AuthorsIt is, perhaps, more difficult to write accurate history than anything else, and this is true not only of nations, kings, politicians, or wars, but of events and things witnessed o...
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Scientific American
Various AuthorsOpposite Harper's Ferry, which is situated on a pleasant elevation at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah riversa few rods north of 'Pinnacle Bluff', a flighty eminence on t...
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Happy Healthy Gut
Jennifer BrowneMillions of Americans deal with daily digestive malfunction and attribute it to genetics or faulty wiring. Jennifer Browne reveals the common denominator present in almost all chro...
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Visionary Women
Andrea BarnetWinner of The Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyFour influential women we thought we knew wellJane Jacobs, Rachel Car...
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The Memory of Whiteness
Kim Stanley RobinsonAn early novel from Science Fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness is now available for the first time in decades. In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scat...
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Authentic Happiness
Martin E. P. SeligmanA national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychologyand sparked a coasttocoast debate on the nature of real happiness.According ...
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Ether Day
J.m. FensterA fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesiaand the price they paid for their breakthrough.On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one opera...
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The Science of Liberty
Timothy Ferris“Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair.” The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, awardwinning aut...
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
Gregg HerkenGregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first timeThe story of the twentieth century is largely t...
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The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One
Daniel KrausFrom the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale of a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the ea...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Other Writings
Benjamin Franklin, E. Boyd Smith & Frank Woodworth PineExplore the memoirs of one of the most inventive Americans in history.A fascinating and unconventionally educated man, Benjamin Franklin impartsin his own wordswisdom and remarkabl...
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Scientific Americans
Susan BransonIn Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building i...
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The Science of the Sacred
Nicole Redvers, N.D.Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidencebased research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processesModern medica...
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Trees of North America
C. Frank BrockmanThis eBook is best viewed on a color device.Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heatactivated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Sear...
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The DNA of You and Me
Andrea Rothman“Refreshing.... Asks urgent questions about female ambition. Fans of Lab Girl have found a worthy successor.”Real SimpleA powerful debut novela wonderfully engaging infus...
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The Witch of Lime Street
David JaherHistory comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the socalled Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was o...
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The Life Story of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin & Frank Woodworth PineAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a record of the life of one of the most impressive individuals in the American history. Franklin's autobiography, although unfinished, rep...
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Genius in the Shadows
William Lanouette & Bela SilardWellknown names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb. One name that is rare...
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Inside the Atheist Mind
Anthony DeStefano"There is only one way to deal with bullies, even in this politically correct worldand that is to crush them."USA Today bestselling author Anthony DeStefano is tired of playin...
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Hunting Hitler
Jerome R. CorsiIn 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitler’s alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the e...
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The Scientific American Boy
Alexander Russell BondAll boys are nature lovers. Nothing appeals to them more than a summer vacation in the woods where they can escape from the restraints of civilization and live a life of freedom. N...
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Whole Motion
Derek BeresModern fitness is not just about how we move our bodies; it’s about how we move our brains as well. Whole Motion offers a complete picture of how to strengthen your resolve, gain l...