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I thought everyone needed one more thing to worry about, so here you go: evolving AI. When I hear this…

It is long past time the US eliminated gerrymandering, the drawing of district lines specifically for the purpose of favoring…

Lee Nisbet This year we’ve been celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation…

Comparisons can be considered the cornerstone of science, though accurate ones can be notoriously difficult to achieve. In research design,…

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…