Wow, what did I do before this mag?!
A review of Scientific American Magazine, November 4, 2008
Submitted by: mbp from Auburn, ME

Great writing and interesting stuff.  I loved it from the very first article.  They get better the more I read them

great science mag
A review of Scientific American Magazine, December 10, 2007
Submitted by: Carl from Spring Lake, NJ

excellent and informative magazine

trustworthy information
A review of Scientific American Magazine, December 7, 2007
Submitted by: Dr. HeinzH from Washington, NJ

1.  My rule would be: No article longer than 2 pages (EXcluding the necessary images and graphs) -- I wish some articles were shorter.
2.  I can do totally without your "religion versus science" obsessions
3.  If the subject is biology, biochemistry etc., I wish the function of enzymes (and similar) would be explained in "mechanical" (and electrical")  terms. Greek names are meaningless to me. Even it this goes against the author's "learnedness"
4.  I wish for more tutorials. (Example, the recent IEEE SPECTRUM article on "Tasers", and the heart muscle). In fact SPECTRUM to me is one notch "better" than Sci.Am. They explain 'simpler' and more, with less "philosophy". They also provide more "down to earth" discussion of the social and economic repercussions.
5. Your "self-touting" does not make me happy. Tell us everything about a NEW author. Your regular contributors' (such as Steve Minky's -- not that I dislike him) exploits do NOT interest me.
6. If only ONE reason why I read you: Your authors understand what they write.  This, a lost art with so many young journalists, who --it seems-- have a digital recorder running and faithfully 'transcribe' every words which they did not understand.
Recently, I detect an element of this faible also in Sci. Am.
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Overall, Very Satified

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A review of Scientific American Magazine, August 20, 2007
Submitted by: Greg from Wilmington, NC

I have relied on Scientific American for fifty seven years to stay abreast of the major developments in the world of science.