Skeptic Society Magazine

‘Like a Reverse Jan. 6’

“Last night Americans treated Donald Trump like he was the East Wing of the White House,” Jimmy Kimmel quipped The election results are in and late-night TV hosts were ready with a slew of jokes. Several late-night shows addressed the blue wave that swept the country during the midterms, resulting in a huge rebuke for President Donald Trump. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel...

This Japanese Workwear is for Actual Furniture Designers

Workwear is having a tough time of it. It feels like more double-knee pants and structured canvas jackets are floating around a matcha cafe than an actual job site. The market is oversaturated, which means standing out with a workwear collection is harder than meeting someone who knows their way around a power saw.  It takes a truly novel concept. Something like, say, workwear...

Dangerous Impulses by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Laurel is four and a half, and she does not want to sit on Santa’s lap. She wants to study the elves. While her big sister Cassie waits in a mall line in Denver, Laurel notices a fresh burn on one elf’s neck and quietly tells her she is free to leave, that nobody will hurt her, not even Santa. Then she catches Santa’s...

2026 midterm elections: How Democrats won the deep South

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Jackson State University students cheer and hold “Tiger Voter” signs and posters of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer as they march across campus on Election Day, November 3, 2026, in Jackson, Mississippi.Azariah Wells/Jackson State University via Getty Images Many...

The Myth of Mommy Brain

“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of the myths,” reads the very first sentence of Susana Carmona’s new book A Mother’s Brain. The line is borrowed from Conjectures and Refutations, a foundational work in the philosophy of science published in 1963 by Karl Popper. Carmona picks up the gauntlet. She begins with the tenacious myth that mothers’ brains turn to mush...