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</div><div>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/05/gmcrops-india</div><div>...</div><div>Suicides among Indian farmers have not increased as a result of the introduction of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gm" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration-line: none !important;">GM</a> crops, according to a large scientific study.The finding runs counter to arguments often cited by NGOs in the country such as Gene Campaign that oppose GM crops. They say that the supposed hike in suicides is a tragic social consequence of farmers being forced into debt as a result of growing the crops.Farmer suicides were recently cited by Prince Charles in a lecture via video link to the New Delhi based NGO Navdanya as one of the ills of GM technology. He spoke of "the truly appalling and tragic rate of small farmer suicides in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration-line: none !important;">India</a>, stemming in part from the failure of many GM crop varieties."But the new analysis suggests that if anything, suicides among farmers have been decreasing since the introduction of GM cotton by Monsanto in 2002. "It is not only inaccurate, but simply wrong to blame the use of Bt cotton as the primary cause of farmer suicides in India," said the <a href="http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/dp/IFPRIDP00808.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration-line: none !important;">report from the International Food Policy Research Institute</a> (IFPRI) in Washington DC. "Despite the recent media hype around farmer suicides," it added, "fuelled by civil society organisations and reaching the highest political spheres in India and elsewhere, there is no evidence in available data of a 'resurgence' of farmer suicide in India in the last five years."It also found that the adoption of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis#Usage" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration-line: none !important;">pest-resistant Bt cotton varieties</a> had led to massive increases in yield and a 40% decrease in pesticide use."What we argue is that it's far more complex than simply adopting a technology," lead author Guillaume Gruère told New Scientist magazine. The report identifies a lack of financial support for farmers as a key problem leading many to borrow money from loan sharks at crippling interest rates. The IFPRI is a thinktank funded by governments, private foundations and international and regional organisations....<div>
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</div><div>for shame:  <ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Calder" title="Nigel Calder" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Nigel Calder</a> – Former Editor, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist" title="New Scientist" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">New Scientist</a> from 1962 to 1966</li></ul><div>=</div><div>New Scientist is a weekly non-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-review" title="Peer-review" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">peer-reviewed</a> English-language <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journal" title="Scientific journal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">international science magazine</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Margerison" title="Tom Margerison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom Margerison</a> in 1956.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-guardian-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> Since 1996 it has also run a website.Sold in retail outlets and on subscription, the magazine covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science and technology. It also prints speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical. There is a readers' letters section which discusses recent articles, and discussions also take place on the website.Readers contribute observations on examples of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pseudoscience</a> to Feedback, and questions and answers on scientific and technical topics to Last Word; extracts from the latter have been compiled into several books.New Scientist is based in London, England, and publishes editions in the UK, the United States, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australia</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sumit_Paul-Choudhury&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sumit Paul-Choudhury (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sumit Paul-Choudhury</a> became editor in 2011,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> following<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Highfield" title="Roger Highfield" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roger Highfield</a>'s move to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Science_and_Industry" title="National Museum of Science and Industry" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Museum of Science and Industry</a> in London.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 History</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Modern_format" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Modern format</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Advertising" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Advertising</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Website" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Website</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Spin-offs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Spin-offs</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Appearances_in_popular_culture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Appearances in popular culture</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Criticism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Criticism</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#Greg_Egan.27s_criticism_of_the_EmDrive_article" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.1 Greg Egan's criticism of the EmDrive article</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#.22Darwin_was_wrong.22_cover" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.2 "Darwin was wrong" cover</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">History[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The magazine was founded in 1956 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Margerison" title="Tom Margerison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom Margerison</a>, a British science journalist and broadcaster,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-guardian-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> as The New Scientist, with Issue 1 on 22 November, priced one shilling (5 pence today).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>The British science magazine Science Journal, published 1965–71, was merged with New Scientist to form New Scientist and Science Journal.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>Originally, the cover had a text list of articles rather than a picture.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> Pages were numbered sequentially for an entire volume of many issues, as is the norm for academic journals (i.e., so that the first page of a March issue could be 651 instead of 1); later each issue's pages were numbered separately. Colour was not used except for blocks of colour on the cover. From the beginning of 1961 "The" was dropped from the title and from 1965 the front cover was illustrated.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> In 1964 there was a regular "Science in British Industry" section with several items.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-ns19640312-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> An article published on their tenth anniversary provides some anecdotes on the founding of the magazine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>In 1970, the company Albert E. Reed acquired New Scientist when it merged with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Publishing_Corporation" title="International Publishing Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">IPC Magazines</a>, retaining the magazine when it sold most of its consumer magazines in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_buyout" title="Management buyout" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">management buyout</a> to what is now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPC_Media" title="IPC Media" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">IPC Media</a>.The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimbledon_Down" title="Grimbledon Down" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Grimbledon Down</a> comic strip appeared from 1970 to 1994. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E.H.Jones" title="David E. H. Jones" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ariadne</a>, which later moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature(journal)" title="Nature (journal)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nature</a>, commented every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of (fictitious) inventor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus(Ariadne)" title="Daedalus (Ariadne)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Daedalus</a>, often developed by the (fictitious) DREADCO corporation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>Issues of (The) New Scientist from Issue 1 to the end of 1989 have been made free to read online.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> Subsequent issues require a subscription.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>As of the first half of 2013, the UK circulation averaged 125,172, a 4.3% reduction on the previous year's figure, but a considerably smaller reduction than many other mainstream magazines of similar or greater circulation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Modern format[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modern format" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The fully-illustrated magazine in 2014 features several sections: Leader, News, Technology, Opinion (interviews, point-of-view articles and letters), Features (including cover article), CultureLab (book and event reviews), Feedback, The Last Word and Jobs & Careers.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Advertising<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Advertising" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>New Scientist runs advertisements for jobs and academic opportunities in the field of science. In the early days[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">when?</a>] they were in a "Classified Advertisements" section with subsections "Official Appointments", "Appointments and Situations Vacant", and "Travel", with a list of coach holidays and prices. The general classified section was dropped in favour of what has become "NewScientist Jobs".Other advertising (particularly but not exclusively of interest to scientists and technologists) is carried in the magazine. Most advertising is full-page between sections.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Website[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Website" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The New Scientist website has blogs and limited news articles and is available to anybody; users with free-of-charge registration have limited access to new content and can receive emailed New Scientist newsletters. Subscribers to the print edition have full access to all articles and the archive of past content that has so far been digitised. As of 2012 a Web 30-day access pass was available, at different prices in different countries (e.g., <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US$" title="US$" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">US$</a>19.95 in the United States).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> The website also has special reports on many topics.The magazine had a weekly podcast, SciPod, which was discontinued in October 2007.In late 2004 NewScientist.com added a subdomain, "nomoresocks" (No More Socks), where visitors could search for, rate, and discuss innovative gifts. Use of the site had dropped considerably by June 2005, and it was discontinued.From mid-2006 some New Scientist content was made available to users of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsvine" title="Newsvine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newsvine</a>, a community-driven social news website.From mid-December 2009 to March 2010 non-subscribers could read up to seven articles per month.In November 2009 New Scientist started <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/thesword/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg") 100% 50%;">The S Word</a>, a blog providing a forum for the discussion of "The science of politics – and vice versa". It was so named because "Despite the central role that science plays in our world, politicians often seem reluctant to engage with it", with the aim of the blog being to help "persuade politicians that 'the s word' belongs at the heart of political debate".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>The technology, environment and space sites were discontinued in 2008, with the content being integrated into the main NewScientist.com site. The site includes a blog on a range of topics from inventions to "short sharp" science.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spin-offs[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Spin-offs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Over the years New Scientist has published several series of books derived from its content. Most recently it has compiled seven books of selected questions and answers from the Last Word section of the magazine and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.last-word.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Last Word website</a>.<ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1998. The Last Word. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780192861993" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-0-19-286199-3</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2000. The Last Word 2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780192862044" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-0-19-286204-4</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2005. Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781861979735" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-86197-973-5</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781861978769" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-86197-876-9</a></li></ul>Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze? is largely a repackaging of selected material from the first two books, following the unexpected mass-market success of Does Anything Eat Wasps?<ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007. How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846680441" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-84668-044-1</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2008. Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846681301" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-84668-130-1</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2009. How to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846682872" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1846682872</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2010. Why Can't Elephants Jump?: And 113 More Science Questions Answered. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846683985" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-84668-398-5</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2011. Why Are Orangutans Orange?: Science Questions In Picture - With Fascinating Answers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846685071" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-84668-507-1</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2012. Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: And 130 Other Science Questions Answered. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781781250266" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 978-1-78125-026-6</a></li></ul>In 2012 Arc, "a new digital quarterly from the makers of New Scientist, exploring the future through the world of science fiction" and fact was launched.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> It is available in several <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook" title="Ebook" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ebook</a> formats, and a "collectable print edition".Also in 2012 the magazine launched a dating service, NewScientistConnect, operated by The Dating Lab.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Appearances in popular culture[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Appearances in popular culture" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">During the introductory sequence of the 1965 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ipcress_File(film)" title="The Ipcress File (film)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Ipcress File</a>, a character is shown reading the magazine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-New_Scientist-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In the first episode of the 2012 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_sitcom" title="British sitcom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">British sitcom</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Dinner" title="Friday Night Dinner" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Friday Night Dinner</a>, a character is shown to obsessively collect the magazine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Criticism[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Criticism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greg Egan's criticism of the EmDrive article<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Greg Egan's criticism of the EmDrive article" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In September 2006, New Scientist was criticised by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">science fiction</a> writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan" title="Greg Egan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greg Egan</a>, who wrote that "a sensationalist bent and a lack of basic knowledge by its writers" was making the magazine's coverage sufficiently unreliable "to constitute a real threat to the public understanding of science". In particular, Egan found himself "gobsmacked by the level of scientific illiteracy" in the magazine's coverage of Roger Shawyer's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive" title="EmDrive" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">electromagnetic drive</a>", where New Scientist allowed the publication of "meaningless double-talk" designed to bypass a fatal objection to Shawyer's proposed space drive, namely that it violates the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_momentum" title="Conservation of momentum" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">law of conservation of momentum</a>. Egan urged others to write to New Scientist and pressure the magazine to raise its standards, instead of "squandering the opportunity that the magazine's circulation and prestige provides".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a>The editor of New Scientist, then Jeremy Webb, replied defending the article, saying that it is "an ideas magazine—that means writing about hypotheses as well as theories".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Darwin was wrong" cover<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: " darwin="Darwin" was="was" wrong="wrong" cover="cover" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In January 2009, New Scientist ran a cover with the title "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Darwin</a> was wrong". The actual story stated that specific details of Darwin's evolution theory had been shown incorrectly, mainly the shape of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_trees" title="Phylogenetic trees" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">phylogenetic trees</a> of interrelated species, which should be represented as web instead of tree.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-scienceblogs-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a> Some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">evolutionary biologists</a> who actively oppose the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design" title="Intelligent design" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">intelligent design</a> movement thought the cover was both sensationalist and damaging to the scientific community.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-scienceblogs-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coyne" title="Jerry Coyne" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jerry Coyne</a>, author of the book Why Evolution Is True, called for a boycott of the magazine, which was supported by evolutionary biologists <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Dawkins</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.Z.Myers" title="P.Z. Myers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">P.Z. Myers</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist#cite_note-scienceblogs-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Scientist&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals" title="List of scientific journals" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">List of scientific journals</a></li></ul></div><div>===</div></div></div>