Skeptophilia

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover fro...

Imagine yourself standing on the shoreline, somewhere on the Earth, three billion years ago. If you're picturing swamps and tree ferns a...

Something that strikes me about many scientific discoveries is how they so often come from someone noticing something the rest of us had ove...

Right now, here in the wilds of upstate New York, it's cold, gray, and snowy.  They say our area has a "four-season climate" -...

A paper in Nature last week blew my mind from several different perspectives. Entitled, " Evidence for Early Life in Earth's Oldest...

For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was constrained. This has huge implications ...

One of the most mystifying, and therefore (to me) one of the most fascinating, paleontological finds is the fauna of the  Ediacaran Assembla...

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover f...