PopSci’s Summer issue is available now—for everyone
While we all stay safe at home, Popular Science is making our Summer issue, which is exclusively publishing as a digital edition, available to everyone. (PopSci/)There was a lot we didn’t know a year ago when we picked “Play” as the topic for our Summer issue. We didn’t know that a pandemic would put much of the United States and the world on lockdown. We didn’t know the Olympics, one of the reasons we selected the theme, would be postponed. Heck, we didn’t know I’d be writing this letter, my first one as PopSci’s editor-in-chief, let alone that I’d be typing in isolation in my apartment as the staff remotely stitched together a digital-only edition.With everything turned upside down—and so quickly!—I started to worry that a magazine full of riddles and sports and fart jokes would seem tone-deaf when life by necessity is serious and grim. And when the stakes...