Skeptic Society Magazine

Queen of Lombard Street by Lisa Kleypas

The women wait behind a little wall. It is 1877, in the Mayfair branch of a private bank, and every female customer is penned at the back of the hall until a young attendant escorts her to a cashier, one at a time, while the men walk straight up. Reina Martin has waited most of an hour on a hard chair. The assistant manager...

Raye wins the Mercury Prize with This Music May Contain Hope

In the run-up to this year’s ceremony, Olivia Dean had been the bookmakers’ favourite for her second album, The Art of Loving. An easy-going, soulful collection of love songs, it had already been named album of the year at the Brit Awards and the Mobos, and is widely expected to earn the singer a Grammy nomination in the same category next month. Speaking backstage,...

Labour is still neglecting the North Sea’s potential

After years of being held up by legal challenges, the Jackdaw gas field, which sits about 150 miles east of Aberdeen in the North Sea, is to be reopened for exploration and production. This is undoubtedly good news – yet it also represents a half-measure by Andy Burnham’s Labour government. Rosebank, a site which sits a few hundred miles northwest of Jackdaw, is the...

From ASICS to Salomon, Browse This Week’s Best Sneakers

This weekly guide sorts the very best from the rest when it comes to the saturated world of sneaker releases, with information on release dates and where to buy. Please note: Some sneakers may sell out at speed. Raffles, friends and family releases, and player exclusives — all of that before a mere mention of the many fire general sneaker releases out there. The...

Climate change is literally altering the shape of our planet

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Climate change is making Earth progressively rounder, new research finds. The findings are a signal of human-caused climate change, however, and tracking the shape of the Earth can help reveal just how much impact people are having on its ice caps. Our planet is not a perfect sphere. Because of its rotation, it...