Skeptophilia

Most people know of at least two reasons that organisms can evolve.  The first, of course, is natural selection; members of the same species...

It's amazing how many attempts it took for primates to successfully colonize North America. There's only one primate species current...

Two years ago, I wrote about a mysterious plunge in global average temperature that occurred 12,800 years ago.  It's nicknamed the ...

Ever heard of the Vinland Map? Supposedly dating from the fifteenth century, this map shows the outlines of Europe, Greenland, Asia, Africa....

During my junior year as an undergraduate, I had to take a humanities elective as part of my degree requirements and settled upon a class in...

Yesterday's post about self-correction and reframing in science prompted a friend of mine, the phenomenal author, blogger, and all-aroun...

I recently re-read John McPhee's wonderful quartet of books on geology, Basin and Range, Rising from the Plains, In Suspect Terrain , an...