Skeptophilia

In yet another pointless, heartless, and cruel move by the Trump administration, a budget proposal includes a directive by the Department of...

When I was about thirty years old, I stumbled upon a copy of American anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum 's 1969 memoir Keep the River on ...

I recently re-read John McPhee's wonderful quartet of books on geology, Basin and Range, Rising from the Plains, In Suspect Terrain , an...

The more exoplanets we find, the more they challenge our notion of how planets should be. For the many of us who grew up watching Star Trek ...

You probably know the story of Carthage , the city in ancient Tunisia that gave its name to a sprawling empire that at its height ran along ...

Non-scientists often have a mental image of scientists, and the scientific process, as being dispassionate and emotionless.  Think about how...

I've wondered for years why people fall for conspiracy theories. My surmise -- and admittedly, that's all it is -- is that when bad ...