Skeptophilia

H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Lurker at the Threshold  is, like much of his work, uneven.  At its best, it's atmospheric as hell, and ...

One thing that seems to be a characteristic of Americans, especially American men, is their love of loud noises and blowing shit up. I share...

One thing that seems to be a characteristic of Americans, especially American men, is their love of loud noises and blowing stuff up. I sh...

Because I apparently don't have enough to worry about, as a teacher, with the approval in Senate committee of the amazingly unqualifie...

Out of consideration for my readers, I try not to ring changes on the same topics too often, especially in rapid succession.  But today I ha...

There is nothing like blatant hypocrisy to put me in a blood-boiling rage. It's even worse when the hypocrisy is coupled with mealy-mo...

Today I was perusing the online news and happened to note a link to LiveScience called " The Ten Top Unexplained Phenomena ."  Co...

One of the least-recognized statistical phenomena, at least by your average layperson, is called regression to the mean . Let me give you ...