Quest Magazine
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What is Quest?

Quest: Science for South Africa is a full-colour, quarterly, popular science magazine aimed specifically at the youth and the general public who have an interest in the sciences.

It aims to present the country’s (South Africa’s) foremost scientific work in an accessible form and can be used to support curricula work at various levels and institutions. 

Quest is distributed to public high schools with science departments, universities, libraries, science centres, government departments, parliamentary committees, embassies, NGOs, TVETs and resource centres. 

Quest is also available at selected national science events, science Olympiads, DST events and Focus weeks and at various communal functions.

Inside our latest issue:

Quest Vol. 20 No 3

Message from our editor

As a journalist, one of my favourite TV series is The Newsroom (2012). One of its more memorable scenes (s03e03) involves news anchor Will Macavoy interviewing a distraught climate scientist who is so disillusioned by global warming that, when pressed if he isn’t worried his alarmist, apocalyptic predictions (based on evidence) will get him in trouble with his superiors, he simply states, “Who cares?”. That was my view for a time as well. The data coming from the various COP events and articles on climate modelling and expected impacts became so dire that I began to ignore them. It just became too depressing.

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