Well, the authors were neuroscientists of some stripe, and were drawing
inferences from little lights on screens. I guess that's not the same as
measuring the mass of the universe. Oh, wait ... <g>
Sent from my iPhone 6s Plus. This is a perfect mobile device. Any perceived
errors in spelling, grammar, or logic are figments of your imagination.
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> I'm jealous, Bob. I always read Martin Gardner in Scientific American, IIRC,
> the mid-sixties and seventies. I'd have loved to have lunch with him one day.
>
> But I don't put "... overflowing with 'may' and 'might' and 'suggests' and
> 'perhaps' and 'could be taken,' etc." as science.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>> On 6/22/2016 11:02 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> One of their founders and long-time contributors, the late Martin Gardner,
>> was a mathematical genius and a whiz at logic and reason. He wrote puzzles
>> for Scientific American. He retired to the town in North Carolina where I
>> grew up, and where I worked as a newspaperman for many years. I had lunch
>> with Martin on a number of occasions, at his house and in local
>> restaurants.
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