Skeptophilia

If you needed more evidence that we're living in surreal times, some scientists have collaborated with the Tourism Board of Lexington, K...

As a followup to yesterday's post, about my generally dubious take on the claim of a Mexican scientist that he'd discovered fossiliz...

We all have intuition and common sense about how the world works, and it is fascinating how often that intuition is wrong. Not that I like h...

My fascination for astronomy started a long time ago.  I started learning the constellations when I was about six, and received a telescope ...