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The more complex the mind, the greater the need for play. Okay, I ripped that off from Star Trek, episode 15, but I like to think the conceit applies to the Scientific American community of readers, writers, editors and authors. Any fan of science and technology must have a curious mind.
The earliest shenanigans I found comes from April 1975, when the inimitable Martin Gardner, the long-time “Mathematical Games” columnist, recapped “six sensational discoveries that somehow or another have escaped public attention.” They included the refutation of relativity theory and the disclosure that Leonardo da Vinci invented the flush toilet.
The tomfoolery spread to other sections, although we tried to make the joke a little more obvious so that no one felt totally duped in the end. For the “Amateur Scientist” column in the April 1995 issue, we did a mock computer restoration of a child’s refrigerator paintings. I had one of the editor’s daughters do a vague copy of Christina’s World to show that a computer can interpret primitive lines into what an artist really intends.
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