05-29-2003, 01:37 PM
Hi,
it also seems very odd that a magazine would require proof of a postdoc affiliation for one of the subscriptions. They have secrets in there that they don't want the mass population finding out?
All the subscriptions are for the same magazine (and, indeed, for membership to the AAAS) so any interested party can get it. By "postdoc", they do not mean anyone who has completed a doctorate, they mean someone who is on a postdoc appointment. It is a discounted rate similar to the student rates and the emeritus rate. The proof is required to get the cheaper rate, not to get different information.
BTW, if you are interested in keeping up with science to this level, than another (perhaps I should say "the" other) alternative is Nature. However, both Science and Nature are a hard read. Depending on the specific article and the reader's background, sometimes an impossible read. Something along the lines of Scientific American is easier both on the wallet and on the time and does a more than adequate task of keeping an interested person up to date on anything other than their specific field of interest.
--Pete
it also seems very odd that a magazine would require proof of a postdoc affiliation for one of the subscriptions. They have secrets in there that they don't want the mass population finding out?
All the subscriptions are for the same magazine (and, indeed, for membership to the AAAS) so any interested party can get it. By "postdoc", they do not mean anyone who has completed a doctorate, they mean someone who is on a postdoc appointment. It is a discounted rate similar to the student rates and the emeritus rate. The proof is required to get the cheaper rate, not to get different information.
BTW, if you are interested in keeping up with science to this level, than another (perhaps I should say "the" other) alternative is Nature. However, both Science and Nature are a hard read. Depending on the specific article and the reader's background, sometimes an impossible read. Something along the lines of Scientific American is easier both on the wallet and on the time and does a more than adequate task of keeping an interested person up to date on anything other than their specific field of interest.
--Pete
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