Skeptophilia

A few days ago, I started reading Michio Kaku's wonderful book Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century .  The book is f...

In troubled times, people forget that one of our core values is compassion. Despite what you might have heard, it's not unique to We...

There's a fundamental rule I follow: if I make a statement, and people I trust take exception to it, I try to listen. That happened to...

Magicians excel at misdirection and sleight of hand.  They can seemingly do the impossible, when in fact their shtick is simply a combinatio...

Something that conquerors have understood throughout history is that if you want to destroy a culture, you don't have to kill all of its...

Sometimes I think I don't understand my fellow humans very well. I try my hardest -- in fact, you might think of this blog as a five...

In Umberto Eco's masterful medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose , we meet a villain who is willing to kill, over and over, to st...

When I hear people make ridiculous and deliberately inflammatory statements, sometimes I have to resist the temptation to grab them by the s...

Every time I think the conspiracy theorists can sink no lower, they outdo themselves. Not that it's easy.  These are the people who th...