Skeptophilia

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about the brilliant and tragic British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer scientist Alan Turi...

Way back in 1952, British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a mathematical model to account for pattern formation t...

You may recall that a couple of days ago, in my post on mental maps, I mentioned that the contention of some neuroscientists is that conscio...

As a science teacher, I get kind of annoyed with the media sometimes. The misleading headlines are bad enough.  I remember seeing headline...

I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligence. Now, let me be up front that I don't know the first thing about the...