From another thread, seems appropriate (for some of the stuff in this thread):
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Originally Posted by sammyg2
When my son was about 5 years old he liked reading his grandfather's popular mechanics magazines so we got him a subscription. he'd read them over and over, just like I read car magazines when I was a kid.
By the time he was about 12 or 13 he lost interest in them so I asked him about it.
He said something like the magazines are for people who don't understand the technology and don't really care, they just like to dream about stuff that isn't quite real.
Popular science magazine talks briefly about "amazing" new stuff and hints that it might be or could be real someday, but in reality isn't, or it's distorted or exaggerated. More fluff and hype than science.
I doubt many real scientists read it except for laughs.
But there is a market for stuff like that, there are lots of people who really like fantasy science stuff that almost seems real.
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