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Summary: Can't enjoy a magazine that doesn't come...
Comment: I ordered this magazine as a Christmas present in mid-December. In February it still had not arrived. I contacted Amazon to determine the status of the order and was told that they needed to "look into the matter further," they asked me to wait another 7 business days. After 8 business days I still hadn't heard anything, so I contacted them again... and this time they told me that even though I had paid for my order in full that my subscription was rejected and that I'd get a refund in the next couple of weeks. Absolutely absurd... I don't even want to know what would have happened had I not taken some initiative.
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Summary: Geared towards any type of physicist
Comment: This is the official magazine of the American Institute of Physics. Members of the society get this by default. Hence, given that the audience is mostly physicists, the level of technical detail in most articles assumes an undergraduate degree in physics. More specialised than Scientific American.Each issue has several articles on an interesting area of research. Lets you keep in touch with the boundaries. The editors try to maintain a balance between experimental and theoretical articles. The discussion in these is not quite at the level in research journals. So there is this attempt at outreach. Most research journals in physics are devoted to a subfield, and assume their readers are in that field. Whereas for this magazine, it's broader.
Another nice thing about each issue are also shorter articles (columns really), that are usually about some funding situation involving the US Federal government, since it subsidises most Anerican basic physics research. While the articles often complain about difficulties in getting funding, physicists from elsewhere may still gape at the amount of financial resources available.
