Picture Competition
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Congratulations
Congratulations to this issue's picture competition winner: Carmine!
This photo is of his collection of rocks, which he began when he first decided to become a geologist. Apparantly he almost has 100. Some of them are even different types of rocks.
This is not the first time these rocks have seen fame: a few of them have previously starred in movies including Harry Vaser and the Hall of Secrets, Mississipi Jones and the First Crusade, The Records of Roddock and Shakespeare in Hate.
and presented in this special edition, 3-issue volume. However, it was at this time that James, inexplicably, decided the journal was not worth his time and left his post. Zak Warren made his first contribution here, starting an association that would later see him as co-leader of the journal.
Setbacks
Volume IV was another major milestone in the development of SJIS – sexy science had arrived on page 3. Thankfully, these original images from the third pages are also archived and freely available online. ‘Subscience’, the popular science psychology magazine was included. By this time, SJIS was internationally recognised and highly reputed, unfortunately spawning rival companies that attempted to share their niche. The most dangerous of these was the plagiaristic, statistically unsound International Journal of Scientific Studies, founded by charlatan Daniel Tompsett. At this fragile time, SJIS made a fatal mistake by investing in time travel experiments.
By Volume V, their involvement with time travel turned from a mere nuisance to a full blown disaster, and one which the IJSS was poised to take full advantage of. Despite this, SJIS nobly continued to present the latest groundbreaking science, and in this volume the popular science marine biology magazine ‘Swimming with Dolphins’ was included. This entire history so far had occurred in just one year – 2012, at the end of which, IJSS made its move to destroy SJIS. Not only did they lose their legal case against IJSS, but were sued by them (and their page 3 models), leaving the whole organisation in ruins. However, the time travel incident was far from resolved, and in fact was ongoing. Having bankrupted SJIS, the IJSS was forced to take on the scientific responsibility for the time travelling incident. It failed, and so both journals were reduced to nothing. A whole year passed in which SJIS-quality science was absent.
Rebirth
In February 2014 having rebuilt SJIS from scratch (with the help of the newly recruited Zak Warren), the first permanently published issue was released online via the excellent Joomag service – Volume VI, issue 1. This is the first publication by SJIS in which the inner content is publicly available, in full. To know the rest of the remarkable SJIS story, one need only read the issues that have been released on Joomag since then.
Image courtesy of Rawich / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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