Editor-in-chief of America's oldest magazine resigns after calling Trump voters fascists

[MineralMan]

24. I'm sorry she resigned.

I have a long relationship with Scientific American. In my small town, the local library was the only public building that had air conditioning - way back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. My home town in Southern California was a hot place during the Summer, so I spend long afternoons at that library. I was a voracious reader anyhow.

One of the features of that library, which was part of the library system in the county I lived in, was that it was also the storage place for several bound magazines series that dated back to the 1890s. To fill those hot afternoons, I used to systematically pore through those bound volumes, beginning with the earliest and working toward the latest. I picked three magazines in particular. Scientific American, National Geographic, and Popular Mechanics. Over a period of six years, I worked my way through all of them. I scanned every page, and read the articles that interested me, and there were many. In the process, I learned an amazing amount of seemingly useless information.

Eventually, I ended up actually writing for Popular Mechanics, designing DIY projects that reflected my fascination with articles showing how to build unusual things, something Popular Mechanics was famous for. But, I also learned a huge amount about the sciences, the world around me, and the progress of technology. I didn't know I was learning so much, since I read because I was fascinated by the information.

Anyhow, Scientific American was a wonderful magazine, and still is. I've continued to read it all my life.