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Three years ago, I wrote here at Skeptophilia  about the scary Cascadia Subduction Zone , which is capable of enormous earthquakes and tsuna...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

In my AP Biology class, we did a lab that involved extracting chlorophyll from spinach leaves.  The first step was to grind the leaves into ...

In somewhat the same vein as yesterday's post, which was about the capacity of subsonic standing waves to induce the sensations we often...

A point I've made here more than once is that my doubting many claims of the paranormal isn't because I think it's necessarily i...

Our capacity for seeing patterns is absolutely critical. It's easy to see how survival in a risky world could hinge on noticing clues in...

One of the difficulties with discouraging bogus claims of the paranormal is the profit motive. A lot of it, of course, is that the money tha...