Skeptic Society Magazine

Ocean cold snaps put sea turtles at risk. Rescuers can help

When the weather turns cold and days get short, Annemarie O’Connell heads to the beach. Late on a December afternoon in 2025, she bundled up and drove to the shore in Truro, Mass. It’s near the tip of Cape Cod, a peninsula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. It was dark and chilly as O’Connell scanned the beach with a flashlight. She was...

Literary Hub » Lit Hub Daily: November 12, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1984, Chester Himes dies. What’s kept us interested in The Sun Also Rises after a century, despite “some barbed wire and thorns in the perimeter of its effects, ones that must be leapt past and over”? Adam Gopnik considers its legacy. | Lit Hub Criticism How Russian defector Boris Krukoff plundered the Amazon in the name...

Jim Caviezel in a Retrograde Actioner

If “Walk Hard” was the parody that made it harder to take seriously subsequent music biopics, “MacGruber” did the same for a certain subset of action movies. Directed by William Eubank (“Underwater”), “Ghost Soldier” stacks up one-man-army cliches as early as the opening credits and continues as if no one’s ever told the story of an individual with a certain set of skills defending...

11 Brown Winter Outfits for Men

‘No brown in town’ once made sense if your wardrobe was split between a country estate and a City desk. Brown leather and tweed were for the country. Black shoes and a dark suit were for business. These days, a chocolate overcoat looks perfectly at home on a Monday morning. Brown does its best work in winter. It’s as easy to wear as navy...

Texans For Elliot Gaiser

I was very pleased to see that Elliot Gaiser was nominated to the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas. I’ve seen some suggestions that Elliot does not have sufficient ties to Texas to support the nomination. Federal district court judges are required to live in their district upon confirmation. Indeed, I can think a number of recent appointees who have been...