Skeptic Society Magazine

Stage Veteran Voiced the Queen in ‘Babar’

Dawn Greenhalgh, a veteran Canadian actress of stage, film and television, died Nov. 6 in Toronto. She was 93. Born in Shanghai, China, she spent her childhood with her family in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, where she discovered a love for music, theater and dance. Greenhalgh moved to Canada with only a guardian at the age of 14, attending Montreal High School...

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 236 — Alienspotting

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Alienspotting – Revisiting Assumptions About Extraterrestrial Life – YouTube Watch On On Episode 236 of This Week In Space, Tariq Malik and Rod Pyle are joined by Mikhail Tikhonov to talk about how life can take more unusual forms, ones we might not even recognize. When we think of extraterrestrials, our minds generally...

Jonathan Haidt on How To Lead a Happy Life

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Anxious Generation and The Happiness Hypothesis, which has just been reissued in a twentieth-anniversary edition. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jonathan Haidt discuss what ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us about how to live a happy life, how the movement to...

November 9 – 13, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1850, David Copperfield concludes serial publication and is first published in complete book form. Think you saw every great debut novel in 2026? Think again. Maris Kreizman recommends 10 you might have missed. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Zachary Fletcher interviews former New York Times romance columnist Olivia Waite about being fired and the current state...

One Good Tennis Sneaker That’s Even Better Off the Court

You’re reading One Good, a series shedding light on the tried, tested, and trusted products our editors can’t stop fawning over. For more recs on fashion, beauty, and tech, visit the Shopping tab or subscribe to our newsletter. A good sneaker should keep up with whatever the day has planned, terrain and to-do list be damned. The days of sneakers being specific to one...