Skeptophilia

History is really nothing more than one contingency after another. This leaves fertile ground for the "what-ifs."  What if the Rom...

One common misconception about the evolutionary model and natural selection is that it always leads to greater fitness. It's fostered by...

My novella We All Fall Down  is set during some of the most awful years humanity has ever lived through -- the middle of the fourteenth cent...

I have to admit to a morbid fascination with things that can kill you in nasty ways. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, mass extinctions ...

Yesterday's post, about the alien origins of humanity, generated a nice round of "you think that's a crazy belief, wait till y...