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Current Issue:
volume 16 number 1
cover art by Paul Duffield
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Cover Story
- Ignorance of Bliss
- We still know so little about happiness — except that we’re supposed to pursue it
News
- The Saturn-Mars Effect
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How a statistical effect explains
the astrological claim for
the power of Mars
Special Section:
Philosophers of Religion
- Antony Flew 1923–2010
- The World’s Most Notorious Atheist Who Changed His Mind
- Motorcycle Maintenance Without the Zen
- How Robert Pirsig’s Mistakes About Atheism Continue Today
Special Section:
Martin Gardner Tribute
- ’Twas Brillig…
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A Celebration of the Life of
Martin Gardner - Martin Gardner, 1914–2010
- Polymath Extraordinaire
Columns
- The SkepDoc
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Genomic Testing —
Are We There Yet?!
- Bad language
- Turn On, Tune Out, Drop Off
Forum
- Letters
- Climate Skepticism Forum
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Ideology not Science; Facts;
No Predictive Validity;
Accepted on Faith - David Brin Responds
Articles
- Science by Think Tank
- The Rise of Think Tanks and the Decline of Public Intellectuals
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Can People’s Minds
be Changed? - How Can We Know?
-
Quantum Consciousness
and Other Spooky Myths -
The thought that there may be a connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness has led to a lot of pseudoscience
- The Sports Dominance Mystery
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Why do certain groups come to dominate some sports but not others?
Reviews
- The Meaning-Making Neuron
- The Brain and the Meaning of Life, by Paul Thagard
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Science in the Spirit
of Mythbusters -
The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists, by Sean Connolly
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A film review of
The Living Matrix -
A Pseudoscientific Infomercial
for Energy Medicine,
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If You Don’t Understand Evolutionary Biology,
Don’t Write a Book About it! - What Darwin got Wrong, by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini
- Waterworld
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps,
by Peter D. Ward - Optimism v. Realism
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The Case for Rational Optimism, by Frank S. Robinson
- Science Faction
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An Interview with Scott Sigler, and a review of his book Ancestor
Junior Skeptic
- The Origin of the Griffin
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A scholar investigates
the mystery; -
Ancient Fossil Discoveries:
The Bones of Heros; -
Tales from the Desert:
Guardians of Gold; - Ancient Trade Routes;
- Case Solved?:
- Objections to the Theory;
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Protoceratops Did Not
Have Wings; - Early Griffins;
- The Bottom Line
-
A scholar investigates
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