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For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was constrained . The question has great signi...

Dear Readers: This is to let you know of some upcoming changes. Some of you might know I also write over at Substack , and over there have f...

Don't worry, the techbros tell us.  AI is gonna be awesome.  Look at how much it can do, how fast it's improving.  At the same time,...

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...