Skeptophilia

A while back I wrote a piece about the Mandela Effect , which is the idea that when you remember some major event differently than other peo...

It's odd how enamored people are of things that could destroy the entire universe. I mean, on one level I get it.  The sheer power of th...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

One of the most fundamental unanswered questions in physics is why there is something instead of nothing. I don't mean this in an existe...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

The question "why are we here?" has vexed scientists and philosophers alike. The philosophical answers to this are beyond the pu...

It's odd how enamored people are of things that could destroy the entire universe. I mean, on one level I get it.  The sheer power of ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece about the Mandela Effect , which is the idea that when you remember some major event differently than ...

So the Large Hadron Collider is having problems again, this time because a weasel chewed through a power cord and shut down the whole opera...

In the movie Memento , the main character, a fellow named Leonard Shelby, has anterograde amnesia, a brain disorder that prevents the format...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we're all gonna die. Sorry if that's kind of a downer of a way to start your morning.  Bu...

There's a fundamental distrust of science and scientists on the part of a large number of Americans.  I think it's probably a left-o...

Many of you undoubtedly know about CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the world's largest particle physics laboratory...