Double Helix Discount Magazine Subscription - 12-Month $62 (Save $10), 24-Month $120 (Save $12) @ CSIRO Publishing

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It’s National Science Week from 12-20 August and we want to help you make science your superpower!

CSIRO’s science magazine Double Helix is the perfect STEM inspiration for kids aged 8-14. Inside every issue you'll find articles, activities, puzzles, comics and prizes galore.

Use promo code SCIENCE23 and you can get $10 off a 12 month subscription and $12 off a 2 year subscription for Australian and NZ subscribers. But hurry as it’s a strictly limited offer! Subscribe online today! Order by 31 July to get your special science week issue of DH.

12-month subscription: $62 (normally $72)

24 month subscription: $120 (normally $132)

This offer is valid on Australian and New Zealand 12- and 24-month subscriptions until 20 August 2023. You must enter promo code SCIENCE23 at the online checkout to be eligible for special discount price. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Order before 31 July 2023 to receive your issue in time for National Science Week.

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  AustriaBargain on 21/07/2023 - 15:05

  +5

  Wish I had this as a kid. Magazines were like curated internet before the internet.

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    jv on 21/07/2023 - 15:21

    +2

    Wish I had this as a kid.

    I used to borrow them from our local library for my kids, and usually read them myself.

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    GeneralSkunk on 21/07/2023 - 22:54

    Oh, I just realised I had a couple of issues of this as a kid! This would be 30+yrs ago. It’s funny how you can remember the feeling of things more than the actual thing, I remember being so excited about this magazine.

    Yeah, back then with no internet, every article/book/magazine was used in piecing together knowledge of the world. 😀

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    thegieche on 24/07/2023 - 11:19

    We got this sometimes when I was a kid in the early 90s. One of the first things I read in it involved typing in some code for a program that simulated sunrise and sunset. I think that was the first programming I ever did and it eventually became my career so I owe a lot to this magazine. Great to see it’s still running.

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  xyron on 21/07/2023 - 15:20

  +1

  I had this subscription as a kid, it was wonderful. Thought it disappeared, like most government-funded school-age STEM stuff did around the middle days of the Howard government.

  The Double Helix club also ran all kinds of excursions and tours of factories, wetlands and the like. Wonder if that's started up again too…

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    jv on 21/07/2023 - 15:22

    +1

    Thought it disappeared

    Our local library still gets them.

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    bargain huntress on 21/07/2023 - 15:31

    +1

    Thought it disappeared, like most government-funded school-age STEM stuff did around the middle days of the Howard government.

    I think you're projecting your political ideology into rewriting your memory.

    I was IN the double helix club DURING the "middle days of the Howard government"

    And I lived in regional areas.

    It didnt go anywhere!

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      xyron on 21/07/2023 - 15:43

      +3

      Unfortunately, the Investigator Science Centre did, and with it a lot of the activities that the Double Helix club ran (in Adelaide), in the mid-2000s.

      However, whether that was a consequence of the Federal or State Government's lack of funding/interest, I am not sure. Probably was the latter, which, in fairness, was a Labor government at the time.

      In any event, glad it still exists. Will be a few years before my daughter is old enough to benefit from being involved in it.

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        bargain huntress on 21/07/2023 - 16:04

        +1

        Im sorry i got irritated by you mentioning politicians. Ive tried to work out if you are correct or not to no avail.

        I dont understand how the adelaide investigator science center was connected to the double helix - i thought it was a national club?

        Here it talks about the labor Rann state government not funding it
        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-10-14/government-blamed-for-…
        But that sounds kind of BS to me. Why cant you keep something open just because you dont have the latest equipment!?!?!?!?! Something a bit old fashioned is better than nothing!

        Here it talks about the club in 2000
        https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news187.html

        Here it doesnt explain anything
        https://blog.csiro.au/a-blast-from-the-past-double-helix-tur…

        Here it says the spin off little kids one was merged with the older one
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Helix_(magazine)

        Here it mentions 'the demise' of the dhc and promotes something called bright spakrs at adelaide uni.
        https://www.weekendnotes.com/bright-sparks-science-club/

        Yet the double helix still exists but the link to the bright sparks is dead.

        ?????

        Im very confused.

        Do you specifically remember the double helix club ending? If so surely you are correct that it did and started again. If you dont remember specifically then i just dont know wtf happened.

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          xyron on 21/07/2023 - 16:10

          +1

          @bargain huntress: I have a memory of the events just completely drying up, I don't know if the club was officially cancelled or whether it just died off. My memory of it is strong because the events were something that my grandpa used to take me to.

          I don't think there was any official connection between the Investigator and the Double Helix club, but the Investigator had rooms in it which were set up for exhibitions/events that the Double Helix club would run out of it, hence the connection between the place and the club are strong in my mind.

          Like anything, you don't know what you've got till its gone.

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            bargain huntress on 21/07/2023 - 17:35

            @xyron: Thats really sad.

            Again i cant see why a lack of funding for equipment upgrades would mean the ISC MUST close? That seems dodgy.

            For one thing comments on this reddit post
            https://www.reddit.com/r/Adelaide/comments/3e0fd2/investigat…
            Says people bought the equipment to do childrens perties. So it must have had some value.

            Sounds a bit to me like maybe they tried to publicly shame and emotionally blackmail the politicians into more funding and it just didnt work? Or the operators didnt want to do it anymore and needed an excuse?

            You would think if there was a funding cut for the DHC there would be some kind of remnant of an outcry online for the DHC like I found for the ISC. It's bizarre that it just seems to have kind of… dwindled?

            Im really not sure if the postal version of the club/magazine stopped during that time because i went through a very difficult period. (Which is probably why i overreacted to your post. Sorry again.) And I got too old to be in it anymore which was very sad.

            I wonder if the Bright Sparks is going still in adelaide uni? Again confusing.

            There was also a maths one at one of the unis called Infinity Club or something like that.

            If these things dont exist anymore then we need to make a new one ourselves.

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          wwwsam on 21/07/2023 - 16:13

          +1

          @bargain huntress: I think there might be a mix of information there.

          I don't know much about Double Helix Club but the merge link refers to the magazines "The Helix" and "Scientriffic" (which were awesome to read when I was a kid!)

          DHC seems to be an actual physical club.

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            bargain huntress on 21/07/2023 - 17:15

            @wwwsam: Well it was a club, but it was centered around the magazine. There were contests and activities that took place via the magazine. You would also sometimes get other things in the mail with the magazine like cards, including a membership card. And schools or the club or other organiations would sometimes organise events or projects which again would be linked to the magazine in someway.

            Now there is a magazine, but it looks like they still have contests at least. So is it that different?

            Sounds like in Adelaide there was a physical location it was associated with? But it was a national thing.

            So i still dont know?

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  Dandaman21 on 21/07/2023 - 18:04

  Tempted to get this to put in the toilet so visitors think i'm smrt.

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    AustriaBargain on 21/07/2023 - 23:22

    Nah, put the times tables on the back of the toilet door, they will think you're a math boffin.

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  awaiko on 21/07/2023 - 18:26

  Loved this as a kid, glad to see that it’s still around.