Skeptophilia

Between December 16, 1811 and February 7, 1812, a series of four earthquakes -- each estimated to be above magnitude 7 -- hit what you might...

A pair of words biologists (and interested laypeople) have to be careful with are primitive and advanced . They're often used in place ...

As Randall Munroe (writer of the amazing comic xkcd ) said, "Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows sugg...

With all of the anxiety over what's happening in the government, panic about climate change and its role in the horrible weather we'...

In 2012, a 19-month-old boy named Ezekiel Stephan spiked a fever and was obviously in distress.  His parents, a British Columbian couple na...

In yesterday's post, we took a look at the latest from the world of extraterrestrial enthusiasts; today, we'll do the same for anoth...