Upphew wrote:Tieteen kuvalehti _was_ better when I read those actively. And by better I mean better content.
Tieteen kuvalehti is published by
Bonnier and translated from the Danish original (
Illustreret Videnskab, “Science Illustrated”).
The
Tiede magazine (“Science”) is published by Tieteen tiedotus ry. in cooperation with
Sanoma Magazines. While it aims to cover all kinds of scientific news and topics, it often gives voice and face to Finnish researchers, this way maintaining a local focus not necessarily present in a translated publication. (Including personal interviews, with the apparent purpose of trying to inspire the younger readers consider a career in science/research.)
I haven’t followed things much lately, but generally speaking,
Tieteen kuvalehti tends to put more emphasis on pretty, colorful pictures (the “illustrated” aspect) and short science-y tidbits than the “dry stuff”. They do run longer and more thorough stories as well, of course, but the easily digestible ones — with little text and spread-sized pictures — feature much more prominently than in the
Tiede magazine. Also, at least a while back, TK often forgot to add the names of the researchers to their stories, or references to the actual studies, instead resorting to vague formulations such as “Polish scientists have recently determined that...” (as if it didn’t matter what the study was or who actually conducted it.)
Not sure how they stack up these days but I always thought
Tiede as being the more serious magazine of the two, trying to represent the local (Finnish) research community to the best of their ability on the side, whereas
Tieteen kuvalehti appeared to be more geared towards generic pop sci entertainment, Nordic/Danish style. Of course, this also means that
Tiede might appear a bit duller/drier in its tone and style even though both are popular science magazines and not by any means actual scientific journals.
