I'm a faithful subscriber to Harper's magazine. I like the content and, even when I don't find much in the articles, I like the features. Sort of how you can really enjoy the New Yorker for the cartoons alone.
One Harper's feature I like is called "Findings" and appears on the last page of each edition. This encapsulates scientific discoveries or reports from the previous month. Here's an idea of why Harper's is always a good read:
"Scientists bred a race of lazy mice, gave sedentary mice a drug that provided them with the benefits of exercise, created sleepless fruit flies, stopped mouse livers from aging, gave knee injuries to a race of cartilege-regenerating mice who quickly recovered, grew hair in bald mice, and found that hairless mice exposed to large doses of UV light were likelier to develop melanomas if they also wore commercial skin moisturizers. The gave mice aggressive cancers and then slowed tumor growth with vitamin C injections, increased the efficiency of brain tumor drugs in rats by giving them erectile-deficiency drugs and prevented macaques from contracting HIV by providing them with vaginal microbicide gels before sex. They bred male mice whose sense of direction is worse than that of female mice, and found that alcoholic mice who are forced to stop drinking no longer try to swim when placed in a beaker of water, perhaps indicating that the mice are depressed.
...Scientists who designed a computer model of a street full of drunk Welshmen concluded that fights break out on nightlife-heavy streets because staggering drunks impede and therefore irritate other people. Men's beer goggles remain in place for up to 24 hours after they stop drinking."
One Harper's feature I like is called "Findings" and appears on the last page of each edition. This encapsulates scientific discoveries or reports from the previous month. Here's an idea of why Harper's is always a good read:
"Scientists bred a race of lazy mice, gave sedentary mice a drug that provided them with the benefits of exercise, created sleepless fruit flies, stopped mouse livers from aging, gave knee injuries to a race of cartilege-regenerating mice who quickly recovered, grew hair in bald mice, and found that hairless mice exposed to large doses of UV light were likelier to develop melanomas if they also wore commercial skin moisturizers. The gave mice aggressive cancers and then slowed tumor growth with vitamin C injections, increased the efficiency of brain tumor drugs in rats by giving them erectile-deficiency drugs and prevented macaques from contracting HIV by providing them with vaginal microbicide gels before sex. They bred male mice whose sense of direction is worse than that of female mice, and found that alcoholic mice who are forced to stop drinking no longer try to swim when placed in a beaker of water, perhaps indicating that the mice are depressed.
...Scientists who designed a computer model of a street full of drunk Welshmen concluded that fights break out on nightlife-heavy streets because staggering drunks impede and therefore irritate other people. Men's beer goggles remain in place for up to 24 hours after they stop drinking."
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