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[–] 30 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I'll just start my own journal with blackjack and hookers.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 11 months 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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