Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 13:33:06 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: NewScientist.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Erica VD Ginter wrote:
>
> Go to www.NewScientist.com and you can get their weekly email about cool
> science stuff. This is a great print journal, covering all kinds of science
> and happily letting us in on some of the silly stuff that goes on in World
> Class Science. I fondly remember their proof, some years back, that purple
> could not me reserved for british royalty because a fine purple dye can be
> derived from a mixture of a common lichen and human urine. Steve will second
> me on the worthiness of this scholarly publication.

Consider yourself seconded.  I've subscribed for a reasonable
approximation of forever.  It's expensive but worth it.

One problem I've had with the website is that, to get the "subscriber
only" info, you have to subscribe through the website. Perhaps I just
haven't found the right magic buttons.  This is the outfit that, for
years, sent subscription forms that wouldn't fit in the little envelopes
that came with them.  Oh, well, they're British.  Now we know what
happened to the Empire ...

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."