SKEPTIC 25.2
Order the print edition, or download the digital edition today!
Skeptic Magazine 25.2 (2020), Giving the Devil His Due, explores free speech and censorship. PLUS: we examine claims about a government “UFO program;” Religious Intolerance, Witchcraft, Superstition, and Underdevelopment in Africa; Creationism in Brazil; What’s to be Gained Through Rationality?; Where and Why do Science and Religion Conflict; The Conditions Under Which Common, Everyday Bullshit is Most Likely to Emerge, and The Howling Horror of Werewolves!, and more…
PLEASE NOTE: The print edition will begin shipping mid-June. Pre-order the print edition, or download the digital edition today.
DIGITAL EDITION
On what devices can I read it?
Read the digital edition of Skeptic magazine on your Apple iPads and iPhones, Android tablets and phones, Amazon Kindle, Windows Surface and phones, or on your PC or Mac via PocketMags.com. Your magazine purchase(s) can easily be synchronized across multiple devices. Find out how to read Skeptic magazine on your favorite device(s).
30-DAY FREE TRIAL : We offer a 30-day free trial to new digital subscribers on annual subscriptions within the Skeptic Magazine App for iOS and Android devices.
JUNIOR SKEPTIC # 75
The Howling Horror of Werewolves!
In this issue of Junior Skeptic, we will dare to track down some of the most ferocious beasts from movies and myth — werewolves! These savage shapeshifters have inspired tales of terror for centuries. People didn’t always believe that werewolves were make-believe creatures. For hundreds of years werewolves were feared as an all too deadly threat. Farmers huddled near guttering candles at night, terrified that bloodthirsty beasts prowled just outside the door. Soldiers hunted werewolves. Accused werewolves were captured and punished. Amazingly, witnesses have even reported werewolf sightings in modern America! How can that be? Let’s find out!
Junior Skeptic — an engagingly illustrated science and critical thinking publication for younger readers (and the young at heart) — is physically bound within each and every issue of Skeptic magazine. About 30 Junior Skeptic back issues are also available as single downloadable PDFs at an amazing price!
SCIENCE SALON # 119
Michael Shermer with Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
Howard Bloom — called “the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known” by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull — is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock-and-roll legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Queen, Kiss, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, Chaka Khan, and one hundred more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me. Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me is Bloom’s story — the strange tale of a scientific expedition into the dark underbelly of science and fame where new myths and movements are made. Shermer and Bloom also discuss:
- What and where is God?
- the search for God inside us all
- how an atheist can search for the soul
- conducting science in everyday life
- music as an evolutionary adaptation or cheese cake spandrel
- What makes some musicians successful and others not (hint: it’s more than 10,000 hours of practice)
- what it was like working with Prince, Billy Joel, Joan Jett, and others
- Do female rock stars have as much sex with strange men as male rock stars have sex with strange women?
- why Michael Jackson was a transcendent talent, the Mozart of our time.
Based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Howard Bloom has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, [and] Freud” by Britain’s Channel 4 TV, and “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear magazine. One of Bloom’s seven books, Global Brain, was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT.
Listen to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.
You play a vital part in our commitment to promoting science and reason. If you enjoy the Science Salon Podcast, please show your support.
THE GREAT COURSES PLUS
Watch hundreds of courses & lectures when you start a free trial today. Listen or watch on your TV, laptop, tablet, and smartphone.
The Great Courses Plus makes lifelong learning and personal enrichment available to anyone, anywhere. Content-rich, unique courses provide you with a world of knowledge designed to expand your horizons, and deepen your understanding of hundreds of subjects. The Great Courses Plus has helped millions of lifelong learners take their learning to the next level.
- Sign up for a free trial.
- Find your favorite subjects and stream.
