Chris Scott

May 6, 2024 | chapter16.org | Chris Scott

Most middle-school students are taught that the first shot of the Civil War was fired by Confederate artillery toward Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861. The fort’s Union garrison quickly surrendered, and the war was on. But beyond those basic facts, most Americans, even those with a solid understanding of the causes and costs of that fratricide, know little of the months-long series of events that led to the shooting.

Apr 2, 2024 | skeptic.org.uk | Chris Scott

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 2, Issue 2, from 1988. The philosophical world was startled in 1944 by the publication from the head of the Cambridge philosophy department of an extraordinary paper: a 15-page discussion in the journal Philosophy on “The Experimental Establishment of Telepathic Precognition.”Of course this was not the first time that a respected thinker had expressed belief in a fringe science.

Jun 29, 2023 | epicurious.com | Abra Berens |Jeanine Donofiro |Chris Scott |Claudia Fleming

When I worked for Allie Levitt, one of the most under-lauded pastry chefs in Chicago, she made a strawberry shortcake with whipped goat cheese mascarpone filling. It opened my eyes to how goat cheese can easily swing sweet with the right fruit. I also once did an event with her chef-turned-butcher husband, Rob. The oven at the space was broken, so we hacked the grill to function as an oven.