#scientific-american

#scientific-american

A new batch of more than three million pages of investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the Department of Justice on January 30 show how the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender sought relationships with news outletsincluding Scientific Americanthrough his connections with scientists. New Scientist turns up in more than 50 documents released by the DOJ, and National Geographic appears in nearly 200 documents.

The line is at the top of the page, right under the words Scientific American, declaring the publication's mission: The advocate of industry and enterprise, and journal of mechanical and other improvements. It grabs my attention because it reminds me that the first issue was created in large part to promote manufacturing and trade; it's pro-business, pro-capitalism, pro-wealth in ways that we don't see much in modern science journalism or in science as a whole.

According to SciAm's April 1925 article on the subject, the weather was pristine for eclipse viewing. The article details some eerie visual effects seen during the eclipse.