Martin Gardner News, Pictures & Buzz

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KangarooPhysics: @Bananaft If the shape of the universe is a 3-sphere, then you can also see us as living ~@# the *inside* of the 2-s… https://t.co/WWSLQGkETX

3_qrx: @wanderingLucs For a lot of people Math is stupid. But as a kid I got hooked when reading articles from Martin Gard… https://t.co/KvVt0QvIjZ

kapouer: @divbyzero This is so Martin-Gardner-kind-of-'haha'

MPBaum: RT @plusorminusmath: I firmly believe all math curricula should dedicate a full year to nothing but Martin Gardner puzzles.

spectacleofski1: “ We all live slapstick lives, under an inexplicable sentence of death...” - Martin Gardner, The Annotated Alice… https://t.co/P0MPolvcIR

Gardner: I think popular belief in bogus sciences is steadily increasing. When I was a boy, there were only one or two astrologers who wrote newspaper columns. Now almost every paper except the New York Times, not to mention dozens of magazines, features a horoscope column. Professional astrologers now outnumber astronomers. For Pete’s sake, a president of the United States and his first lady were astrology buffs! This would have seemed unthinkable a hundred years ago. Alternative medical views are growing rapidly, especially on college campuses where more students are relying on homeopathic remedies than ever in history. Real tragedies occur when persons avoid sound medical help and rely on worthless claims.

This puzzle was in a book call mind boggling puzzles by martin gardner.

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Martin Gardner was the leading light of the modern skeptical movement. "Shortly before he died, Carl Sagan wrote to say he had reread my Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener and was it fair to say that I believed in God solely because it made me “feel good.” I replied that this was exactly right, though the emotion was deeper than the way one feels good after three drinks. It is a way of escaping from a deep-seated despair. William James’s essay “The Will to Believe” is the classic defense of the right to make such an emotional “leap of faith.” My theism is independent of any religious movement, and in the tradition that starts with Plato and includes Kant, and a raft of later philosophers, down to Charles Peirce, William James, and Miguel de Unamuno. I defend it ad nauseam in my Whys."