Northern Virginia Magazine

This magazine does an amazing job of detailing anywhere you could want to see in the Northern Virginia area. For instance, a sampling from the July issue: Where to go for hot air ballooning, rooftop dining, natural swimming holes, innertubing, spas, ice rinks, dog parks, boat rentals, shaded trails, run through fountains, waterfalls, fireworks, county fairs and so on, along with any applicable dates or addresses. There are also restaurant reviews, recipes, and articles of interest to those living in the area. So far, I have found the information helpful, accurate, and up to date. Having lived in Alexandria for about 3 years now, I feel like this has opened me up to the bounty of activities within a short drive. I have not found a single issue lacking in at least one or two interesting articles or places to visit.

Modern Age

This is a great scholarly journal. It contains excellent conservative political essays. Be well versed in Classical Philosophy,Literature, Christian Church History,and Christian Thought before you buy this Journal. It's not for air heads and not for Liberals.

World of Cross Stitching

This is a wonderful magazine. There are patterns for both beginners and advanced stitchers. Each month it arrives with a free cross stitch gift. I love it! It's also great because they include licensed characters such as Tatty Teddy and Margaret Sherry's designs.

Laura

Biotechniques

Most journals you read in the lab are geared to your speciality These journals have research articles that are reviewed by panels of scientists in the discipline and are publications for advances in science. But "Biotechniques" was ground-breaking in that it published articles on the "how" of science rather than the "what" or "why" of science. The articles are peer-reviewed, but they focus more on applied science, techniques and methods. Articles might feature information about using new instrumentation, or new chemistry, reagents, or a way of doing a particular assay in a new method. It's also a good place to find out about new products and reagents.

If you do bench science in biotech, this magazine could be a valued addition to your monthly mailbox. It's not a research magazine in the usual sense. Instead, it presents small advances that you may be able take back to the lab and use immediately. They're practical, pointed, and presented in specific detail. Some times, they're so specific that they address the performance of specific vendors' instruments or reagents. This is truly a goldmine of hard-working information.

The problem with a commercial goldmine these days is that you have to move about a tonne of ore to get a gram of gold. Likewise, these reports offer pinpoint coverage over the whole map of biotech and if your work isn't exactly at one of those pinpoints, then it's probably a clean miss. There are occasional articles on computation techniques my main interest, but something that no biotech worker can wholly ignore. As with the wet-science articles, the computing reports are very pragmatic. I have to admit, I'm more interested in fundamental algorithms than in rough answers based on clever Perl scripts organizing people's tools and data.

This looks like a great magazine for people solving daily problems in bio/chem labs. Maybe not this month or next but sooner or later, it's bound to have a tip that works for you if you're the right kind of reader. I'm just not.

//wiredweird

PS: Don't let the exaggerated list price put you off. You'll probably see a Biotechniques booth at some trade show some time soon, and you'll find a much better price. One extra rating star for being very affordable.

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Le Canard Enchaine

Love it, can't live without it but also can't afford it right now... Seven more words required? Tant pis pour moi, il n'y a pas un meilleur journal satirique sur le marché actuellement. Vive la France et son esprit vif et contestatoire.

Wired (1-year auto-renewal)

This magazine was really good over 10 years ago, was thick and filled with awesome articles. I find these days it is filled with tons of ads, and not many core computer science type articles. Some of the articles are too futuristic and filled with all pop terms/buzz words and not much substance. I like a simple, powerful technological type magazine. Nevertheless, it is one of those magazines that cater to a tech crows. I like MIT Technology review far better than this magazine.

I subscribe to only 1 magazine: Wired. I am an older female, not the typical demographic, and although I have always loved techy stuff, Wired goes far beyond that to cover an amazingly wide array of topics. The articles are in-depth and educational. Even though some terminology and subjects (like gaming) are beyond my interests, I find myself reading every issue cover-to-cover.

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Given that you can get any and all information from the web and in real time I have dumped all my magazines or switched to digital versions. Wired is the one I can not let go of. For anyone why loves technology this is the newsweek equivalent. It is packed with great articles.

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The only thing I would really like Wired to improve is their access to the digital version. I've been a happy subscriber for years, which means I can access the digital version as well as the print that is delivered to my house. Problem is, I don't own an iPad or a Nook; since I have a Nexus 7 I appear to be out of luck. This just doesn't seem right and I hope they resolve it very soon.

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I have to say that I get my copy of Wired for free. It is simply not worth subscribing to.

Why? The writers either fawn excessively over some product or person or they are so naive that they believe anything a celebrity/writer/etc tells them. You could sell them just about any story as real even if it was about aliens in Roswell. I have never encountered a magazine that continually passes off truths based on total hearsay. Ex; the story about Facebook and the movie was ludicrous to say the least.

On the other hand, Wired usually have at least one interesting article in each magazine. As such if you can get a subscription cheap enough, it might be worth it.

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