Our Puzzles for March 2021 kick off with nine Picture Puzzles (rather than the usual seven).
Then scroll down to the “Mixed Bag” Questions (Trivia and General Knowledge);
and a Skeptical Crossword Puzzle which revisits Financial Fraud.
A set of ten Logic & Maths Puzzles concludes the batch for this month.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!
It’s now too late to announce that the annual Melbourne Darwin Day picnic has been cancelled due to the Victorian government’s decision to impose a five-day lock-down to counter a small but worrying spike in Covid-19 infections.
Bummer. It’s a high point in our social calendar, and many of us were looking forward to it and planning to attend.
So obviously, all that remains is:
(a) to CONGRATULATE the Victorian government in following the Science. Darwin would have been proud.
(b) to do a bit of value-adding to our virtual Darwin Day.
Here’s a presentation about Charles Darwin by Tina Hanigan at Skepticon 2019.
Here is an hour’s worth of interviews recorded by Adam Ford of attendees at a recent Darwin Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IPNeEp_13k
Skeptics and other “free-thinkers” around the world are inclined to mark two special days in each year.
One, of course is December 25th. (That’s Isaac Newton’s birthday). The other is the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday, in Shrewsbury England on February 12th 1809.
Quite a lot of useful, informative and entertaining stuff about Charles Darwin already exists on this site. Rather than add to it, this year we’ll just provide the links.
Charles Darwin Articles
“About Charles Darwin”
https://skeptics.cafe/2007/11/27/about-charles-darwin/
Darwin – A Great Scientist by Rosslyn Ives https://skeptics.cafe/events/darwin-a-great-scientist/
For Schools: – The Darwin Day Suite of Classroom Exercises
https://skeptics.cafe/2019/01/22/for-schools-darwin-day-february-12-2/
Charles Darwin Crossword:
https://skeptics.cafe/puzzles/february-2014-skeptical-crossword/
February’s Skeptical Crossword Puzzle returns to a favourite theme of Foretelling the Future. A new set of Picture Puzzles, a set of “Mixed Bag” Questions, and a set of Maths & Logic Puzzles accompany at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE, or if you’d like to go straight to the crossword, go here:
128 Feb 2021 Foretelling the future
Enjoy!
1. Summits
2. Benighted
3. Beady eyes
4. Supersede
5. Ample
6. Nautical
7. Belong
We start the new year as we left the old one: with a set of Picture Puzzles, a set of “Mixed Bag” Questions, a Skeptical Crossword Puzzle and a set of Maths & Logic Puzzles.
They’re all blog-style at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE, or if you’d like to go straight to the crossword, which is about 2020 in Review (how could it not be?) go here:
Enjoy!
Our Crossword Puzzle is called Famous Skeptics (3).
126 December 2020 Famous Skeptics (3)
It’s a belated follow-up to our earlier Famous Skeptics Crosswords published in December 2014:
December 2014 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
and in July 2016:
Of the twenty-three people featured in this month’s crossword, all but one are different to the twenty-six skeptics of the 2016 crossword. That common link, fittingly, is James Randi.
There’s also a new batch of Picture Puzzles, Mixed Bag Questions (Trivia/General Knowledge), and a Logic & Maths Problems set with worked solutions.
All on the PUZZLES PAGE.
Enjoy!