Skeptic Society Magazine

2027 Latine YA Books for Your TBR

Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month may be over, but that just means it’s time to start looking ahead to the amazing Latine YA books that will be published in 2027. Every year, I love pulling this preview together, as it’s an opportunity to both reflect on the current state of publishing for Latine literature and to see how many more voices are being brought into the...

15 Luxury Menswear Pieces Worth Investing In This Autumn

At some point in every man’s sartorial journey, buying more clothes stops being the answer. Instead, it’s about buying better. Fewer pieces, more considered purchases and garments that do a lot more than simply display an expensive label. Of course, not everything with a designer price tag deserves one. Plenty of costly clothes offer little beyond a famous name, but others, where the quality...

Ivory-tower liberalism

Economist Daron Acemoglu is back in London for his book tour, in the city where, more than 30 years ago, he studied for his PhD at the London School of Economics. His thesis examiner, Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides, later wrote: ‘[Acemoglu’s] thesis is among the best ever written – if not the best at the LSE.’ The Economist has called him ‘world’s most influential...

Framed answer today – here’s the solution for October 29

The last couple of years have seen a huge rise in browser-based puzzle games, tasking players with working out a certain kind of answer using limited guesses. Framed is one of the newest, following in the footsteps of Wordle, but offering a slightly different twist. You’ll still need to work out the answer using limited information and only six tries, but it’ll be movies...

Dead Star Offers a Glimpse Into Our Solar System’s Future

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope recently spotted something curious. Observing a white dwarf (J1328−1450) located roughly 1,600 light-years from Earth, the team noticed it was surrounded by a rare disc of debris. According to their analysis, recently published in Nature Astronomy, it could offer a glimpse into the future of our solar system.  When a star like...