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Do Not Open a Window during a Hurricane

28 Jul 2023

This article was first published in The Skeptical Inquirer....

Where there is Smoke, there are Air Quality Indices

21 Jul 2023

I woke up from a nap to see a doomsday-esque picture outside the car window. My friends and I were driving back to Montreal during the poorest air quality day of the summer, and the city looked...

This One Is For The Birds

17 Mar 2023

Pet birds are very popular and loads of people have bird feeders in their back yards. That makes for birdseed being a huge business! Most people of course don鈥檛 give much thought to what it...

Dowsing: Dowse It Work?

17 Mar 2023

Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose. Although we live in a world driven by technology, we are always one cataclysm away from retreating to magical notions. Climate change is...

The Curious Sexual and Asexual Habits of the Mighty Mite

3 Mar 2023

Have you ever heard of pancake syndrome? No, it鈥檚 not the medicalization of having breakfast for dinner, nor is it a skin rash reminiscent of those delicious flat cakes. It鈥檚 a severe allergic...

The Little Ice Age That Made Christmas White Forever

23 Dec 2022

Our collective vision of Christmas landscapes is so immersed in snow that the very phrase 鈥淚t鈥檚 beginning to look a lot like Christmas鈥 conjures up imagery that is nearly all frosted, sparkling and...

Is it true that no two snowflakes are identical?

9 Dec 2022

Snow crystals鈥攂etter known as snowflakes鈥攁re intricate, delicate, tiny miracles of beauty. Their very existence seems unlikely, yet incomprehensible numbers of them fall every year to iteratively...

Look But Don鈥檛 Lick

7 Dec 2022

We are used to getting warnings. The bisphenol A in canned foods will do you in. So will artificial sweeteners. Sugar too. Those yoga pants you wear? They may be rubbing those nasty perfluoroalkyl...

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