Anyone pay attention to the scientist in the beginning reading New Scientist magazine?
I'm assuming this was just a handy prop to show the audience that it was a scientist we were looking at, not some sort of old-fashioned product placement..
I can't think of another movie where a real scientific magazine or publication has appeared - does anyone know of others?
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mattabat
War games / Prime Risk
shareI'm assuming this was just a handy prop to show the audience that it was a scientist we were looking at, not some sort of old-fashioned product placement..
I'm not sure just what the question is. New Scientist was and is a sort of scientific current-affairs magazine--not as technical as Science or Nature, but exactly the sort of thing that a scientist would read to keep up with scientific discoveries and issues outside his or her own specialty. https://www.newscientist.com/
I used to pick it up from time to time, mostly because of the silly stuff like Bill Tidy's Grimbledon Down (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimbledon_Down) and the Ariadne and Daedelus columns, and more serious stuff like Tam Dalyell's Westminster Diary.
Not to mention job hunting. We all used to look for jobs in the New Scientist, and end up reading Grimbledon Down and Daedelus. We'd already heard most of the science stuff on Tomorrow's World. ;)
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