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John Varghese James “The Amazing” Randi’s death last month, after a lifetime of exposing charlatans and chicanery, raked up a seven-year-old wound I didn’t know I was carrying. In August 2013, a similar life of struggle against irrationality, superstition, and exploitation of the credulous ended when Dr. Narendra Dhabolkar, a mild-mannered, soft-spoken rationalist was shot…
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Sandra Dunham In my home, the dialogue about COVID-19 and the rapidly increasing case numbers follows the narrative of “Why can’t people just do the right thing? Don’t people realize that their behaviour is making this worse?” And yet, when carefully examined, our own behaviour is, at times, less than stellar. So, why, when the…
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Edan Tasca On October 20, one of the skeptical community’s fiercest members, James “The Amazing” Randi, died of natural causes. He was 92. Born in Toronto in 1928, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge was skeptical from a young age, having quit summer school as a child because his teachers couldn’t offer proof of the teachings of…
By Keith Douglas This month’s riddle will be a simple question that was posed a few issues back: Is there anywhere — not on Earth — where there exists a river of Coca-Cola?
Examining Randomness
