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The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) underwent some significant changes after it entered its fourth decade—while remaining true to its…

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part article. The first installment appeared in the January/February 2026 issue.…

It’s an iconic image – a giant cephalopod with its tentacles wrapped around a sailing ship, tearing it apart as…

In his lecture “On Freedom,” famous Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski said: You can, and even, I think, should, believe in…

This interesting case was reported in the literature in 2007. For some reason it was then widely published in the…

The latest social media buzz involves a list of scientists who have either died or gone missing over the last…

Regeneration is one of the futuristic tropes of science-fiction, because it is both incredibly powerful and not theoretically impossible. Imagine…

The recent rapid advance in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) applications I think qualifies as a disruptive technology. The…

On the relationship between the pointless cosmos and purposeful living organisms. I am a firm believer in miracles—a confession that…

Remember The Last Starfighter from 1984? In that movie a trailer-park kid with limited prospects spends his time on an…