The Acumen Journal
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The Acumen Journal of Life Sciences was a magazine dedicated to explaining the economic, social, and political implications of discoveries in the life sciences and biotechnology. Founded by Jason Pontin (formerly the editor of Red Herring Magazine, now the editor and publisher of MIT's Technology Review), and funded by entrepreneur Eric Greenberg, it was published between 2003 to 2004. Only five issues were ever printed, and most of its 30,000 subscribers received the magazine for free, but it enjoyed some cachet because it published unconventional stories by well-known writers about a notoriously obscure subject. Writers included Horace Freeland Judson, Sherwin B. Nuland, Freeman Dyson, and James Surowiecki. The sixth issue was about to be shipped to the printers, when Eric Greenberg became disenchanted with the costs of funding a new magazine.
