michaelA quick reaction to the news that #ScientificAmerican and #SpektrumDerWissenschaft are being sold off. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/news-from-publishing-world.html
Sebastian Hagedorn 
@proseandpassion My mother had a subscription to the German version since the early 1970s at the least. When I was a kid I read a lot of the articles and often failed to understand them. I fondly remember the mathematical games by Martin Gardner.
@hagedose68 sdw only started in 1978 though ... and yes the main articles could be really tough back then ...
@hagedose68 I was left traumatised by the article about the T cell receptor, mid-1980s. And the fact that after a flood of immunology jargon they felt they had to write out specifically that the pH is the negative base 10 logarithm of the concentration of H+ ions.
Martin Gardner I mainly read in book form.
Martin Gardner I mainly read in book form.
@proseandpassion The only book of his I have is the Annotated Alice.
@hagedose68 Annotated Alice has moved out with one of my daughters, will have to replace it some time. At the Gardner / Carroll interface I still have The Universe in a Handkerchief: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-universe-in-a-handkerchief/martin-gardner/9780387256412
@proseandpassion Goes to show how memories can fool you.