Martin Gardner News, Pictures & Buzz

Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62  The Boston Globe

Derby’s Cason Lindsey avenges loss to win second Kansas high school wrestling title  Wichita Eagle

‘That’s all heart’: SM East wrestler completes improbable run to Kansas championship  Kansas City Star

In Loving Memory: Obituaries Of The Week February 28, 2021  Smokey Barn News

High school wrestling: East Super Regional 2A, 3A brackets have some stellar quarterfinal match-ups.  The Morning Call

Chipps improbably win WCAL freshman tourney  Wooster Daily Record

Massachusetts real estate transactions for Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties Feb. 28, 2021  MassLive.com

Worcester County real estate transfers  Worcester Telegram

Saturday's local scoreboard  Grand Forks Herald

STATE WRESTLING: South Fremont extends streak while Ririe's is snapped at 6  Post Register

Gardner-Webb 42, Elon 20  San Francisco Chronicle

Gardner-Webb Football Storms Back To Beat #24 Elon, 42-20, Saturday Afternoon  Gardner Webb University Bulldogs

FCS Spring Football Scoreboard, Schedule, Predictions: Week 2 Sunday  College Football News

Sherrill Breaks Record As Seminoles Finish Undefeated Weekend At Unconquered Invitational  Seminoles.com

Sports agate — Feb. 27, 2021 | Rome Daily Sentinel  Rome Sentinel

4 Essential Tips to Get Started With DIY Investing  Nasdaq

Putnam middle, high schools announce honor roll  Norwich Bulletin

Southmont High School Honor Roll Report 2020 – 2021 Trimester 2  thepaper24-7.com

Students: Feb. 27, 2021 | Opinion | pressrepublican.com  Plattsburgh Press Republican

New York Yankees news: Outfield finally looking healthy  Pinstripe Alley

randysrkamradt1: @madeline_pc Anything by Martin Gardner. Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments is #@ my bookshelf.

noufalibrahim: @trans_versality @NGKabra Very well articulated. I was outright scared of compe@%ive maths. Made me feel like I kn… https://t.co/x0mO1Lsz7r

center4inquiry: Tim shows the Martin Gardner Collecti#, the pers#al collecti# of books owned by a man c#sidered by many to be t… https://t.co/btmUnaVjcL

justAfanDavid: @DynamicWebPaige Love Martin Gardner books 👍👍

davidcarper: @starstryder I got both; the "Talks too much" in elementary, then in trouble for reading in cl#^ later. You would… https://t.co/BnZVcOVs2e

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."