Skeptic Society Magazine

2026 Daytime Emmys Winners List

The 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards were presented Friday night, with General Hospital taking home the top prize of best daytime drama. The series, which went into Friday night’s show up for 13 awards, won three other awards and saw its Genie Francis receive the lifetime achievement award. Beyond the Gates also won four awards, with star Tamara Tunie winning best actress in a daytime...

A Libertarian Perspective on the 2026 Election

NA I was going to write a post about why, in this election, the right thing for libertarians to do is vote for Democrats for all federal offices, unless either 1) the Dem candidate is DSA, or 2) the GOP candidate is one of those very rare Republicans who oppose all or most of Trump’s awful policies. But libertarian political philosopher Dan Shapiro beat...

“We Will Find a Graviton Before We Find Dark Matter”

Igor Pikovski recently decided to tackle one of the holy grails of physics: discovering the quantum soul of gravity. “It’s the biggest mystery of physics,” says the Stevens Institute of Technology quantum information scientist. Quantum physics was formulated more than a century ago by the collective efforts of many scientists, including Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Niels Bohr, to explain some puzzling experimental results,...

Here Be Monsters | Shannon Heffernan

I’d been noticing monsters everywhere. It was 2025 and President Donald Trump had been calling immigrants “monsters.” His opponents hurled the term right back at him. Monsters appeared at the movies, from Sinners to Frankenstein, and on the radio, from Lady Gaga’s “The Beast” to the chart-topping songs from KPop Demon Hunters. My three-year-old daughter was terrified and fascinated by monsters. She pulled a...

When Is a Shoe More Than a Shoe? When It’s od.A

Every good idea has already been had. All the best hiking shoes have already been designed. Everything that’s come after has been, quite literally in the latter case, a retread. So says od.A, a young footwear brand proud to produce “nothing new.” od.A’s shoes are beautiful to behold, streamlined slabs of nappa leather and waxed nubuck that look as much like trail shoes’ future...