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A Local Halloween Houdini Seance From A Surprising Source

flickr.comOf course Houdini's ghost would carry chains.​ If the most famous magician in history were to come back from the dead as a publicity-related favor for any group or organization, it would probably be the skeptics.Harry Houdini spent most of his career debunking psychics and scamsters, con ... More >>

James Randi has been worshiped by nonbelievers and doubters. So what will free thinkers do when he's gone?

flickr.comOf course Houdini's ghost would carry chains.​ If the most famous magician in history were to come back from the dead as a publicity-related favor for any group or organization, it would probably be the skeptics.Harry Houdini spent most of his career debunking psychics and scamsters, con ... More >>

On Men, Codfish, Raw Oysters, and Other Musings

Oyster beds in Cape Cod.There's a certain kind of man who never fails to impress me, a guy who does things (apart from the obvious) that I could never do. Vacationing in Cape Cod last week, I met one of them: the contractor who was renovating the upstairs loft in my sister's new house in Chatham. Af ... More >>

The Cat That Got Away

Flickr User: autorin22In a post Friday, we described the "Houdini-esque predicament" of Charles Saltzman, a former treasurer of the Deerfield Beach cat shelter, Feline Friends. Three years after leaving that position, he'd seemingly been caught red-handed, raiding a Feline Friends-controlled bank ac ... More >>

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