Great for geeks of all kinds!

Are you a geek? I am. That's probably the only reason Scientific American appealed to me. I have read this magazine since I was about 12 years old in the early 90's. (yea, I'm a young one) The wonderful thing about this magazine is that it doesn't matter what kind of geek you are, this magazine has something for you. I am more of a biology geek and so I enjoy the articles that deal with biology/health.

In the Nov. 2000 issue of Scientific American a biology geek, like myself, may be interested in reading in an article entitled: "Cloning Noah's Ark". This article discusses how the new cloning technology might offer a way to keep some of the endangered species from actually disappearing off the earth. What I found particularly interesting about this article was that it discussed the actual cloning process. It showed drawings of the procedure as well as actual pictures. This article not only discusses the scientific reasons for cloning endangered animals, but also the moral reasons.

Another article I found of interest was no more than 3 paragraphs long. It was all about how a home pregnancy test actually detected pregnancy. Complete with drawings and factoids I found this interesting because I am one of the millions of American women who have taken at home pregnancy tests.

How about you engineering geeks? Those of you who were always building model rockets as kids? This magazine has something for you. The Nov. 2000 issue discussed The "Vasmir Rocket". The Vasmir Rocket is supposed to be a more energy efficient, powerful rocket. Much different than rockets of the past. I'll be honest with you, I didn't make it through this entire article. I tried, but my mind kept wandering because I have no interest in rockets.

This magazine doesn't only have things for biology or engineering geeks. No, it has things for the ever so prevalent group of computer geeks as well. This specific issue discusses computer animation and how it is that computers are generating such realistic images. I found this article interesting, because it talked about how things were done in movies that I had seen, movies such as Titanic and The Perfect Storm.

It doesn't matter your passion or what kind of geek you are. This magazine has something in it for every kind of geek from environmental geeks to math geeks to statistical analysis geeks and of course to me and my fellow biology/medical geeks.