Society

When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.

Religion

‘Fan Tai Sui’: The Chinese superstitious belief that your birth date has offended the gods

Foo Xin Ru Stefanie -
In Chinese tradition, your birthdate can occasionally be seen as unlucky - which is why people spend money to appease the gods they fear their birth has offended
Religion

Closed coffins and open coffers: the costs of Singaporean Chinese funeral practices

Ang Kai Randall -
Chinese funerals are extremely expensive, with prescriptive periods of extended mourning - but their value is for the living, not the dead
Paranormal

What really happened in the case of the Philadelphia Experiment?

Sean Slater -
According to legend, in 1943 the USS Eldridge disappeared, victim of an experiment gone wrong - but the reality was much more mundane
Moral Panics

The Oceangate tragedy has brought some of society’s ghouls to the surface

Brian Eggo -
Tragedies like the implosion of the Oceangate Titan submersible inevitably attract a slew of people trying to exploit them for their own agenda
Religion

Joss paper offerings: how to make Chinese hell a fun place for your ancestors

Lee Siew Yee -
Chinese mourners traditionally burn paper offerings for dead relatives - but recently, the practice has expanded to involve paper versions of iPhones and luxury goods
Cryptozoology

If you should go at midnight: legends and legend tripping in America

Mark Horne -
In his new book, sociologist Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl examines 'legend tripping': the adolescent rite of passage of seeking out purported sites of creepy or paranormal experiences
Crime

Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo isn’t dead… but the credibility of Twitter ads might well be

Michael Marshall -
Twitter accepted payment to promote tweets falsely claiming celebrity deaths, linking to scam sites impersonating national newspapers to push cryptocurrency scams
Moral Panics

Beware the book ban: schools and libraries are a battleground in the culture war

James Klock -
Moral panics and culture war point-scoring are driving book bans in the US - and, given America's culture dominance, around the rest of the world too
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