Skeptophilia

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's post, about how the best way to defang would-be fascists is to laugh directly into their face...

Today, we have three stories that are particularly interesting in juxtaposition. The first one is heartbreaking.  A unique species of cactus...

As I write this, category-3 Hurricane Idalia is currently battering parts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.  It strengthene...

Way back in 1952, British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a mathematical model to account for pattern formation t...

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

I wonder if you've heard about the latest attempt to turn the state of Florida into an autonomous authoritarian oligarchy. No, I'm n...

A couple of days ago, I received an email through my author website that started out, "Are you by any chance the Gordon Bonnet who taug...

Dear straight people: I hope you recognize the path the United States is on, and where it leads.  Because it's easy to blind yourself to...

A dear friend of mine sent me a message a couple of weeks ago.  It was a recommendation to watch a recent Netflix series, and read the graph...