Skeptic Society Magazine

‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 Review: Netflix Rom-Com Returns

If nothing else, give Nobody Wants This credit for allowing itself a tiny bit of growth: After two seasons of exhaustingly circular conflict about whether a good-boy rabbi like Noah (Adam Brody) could ever really be with an agnostic Gentile sex podcaster like Joanne (Kristen Bell), season three begins not only with the couple moving in together, but Joanne starting Jewish conversion classes. Finally,...

Just the Good Parts by Robbie Couch

The tables by the door of Coolsby Candle Company are supposed to look like autumn on steroids: pine cones, fake leaves, towers of pumpkin and maple scents, and a box of old festival photos, including every year that a Coolsby man cut the Red Fest ribbon in a suit printed with maple leaves. This October there is a sign with a QR code and...

AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers

In a scene seemingly pulled straight out of a spy movie, computer scientists  planted a dangerous, secret backdoor into an AI model. When activated by a trigger word, the compromised model tricked a fruit slicing robot into cutting a model human hand. Rather than cause chaos,  the team from Binghamton University in New York say its violent robot brainwashing is meant to draw attention...

Is the West finally emerging from the Great Stagnation?

Up until recently, we thought history had come to an end. Trade had replaced power politics, dependencies were mistaken for security and economies stopped growing as they once had. Now, however, we finally seem to be emerging from what one writer called the Great Stagnation. It’s about time, too. During the 1990s and especially the 2000s, there was little doubt that Western economies entered...

UGG’s Tasman Slipper Goes Full Bottega Veneta

An UGG and Bottega Veneta collab in 2026? Well, not exactly. UGG’s Tasman Woven slipper is a quilt-topped slipper that just so happens to look like it came straight from the Bottega Veneta store. While it’s not an official collab, this woven slipper allows us to fantasize about a universe where the king of cozy collabs with the king of intrecciato to give us...