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It's always a little surprising to find out that phenomena that are (figuratively speaking) right in our own neighborhood are still a my...

In my short story "Retrograde," the main character, Eli, meets a woman who makes the bizarre claim that she experiences time runni...

Today's topic in Skeptophilia isn't controversial so much as it is amazing.  And shows us once again what a weird, endlessly fascin...

I've dealt with a lot of weird ideas over the thirteen years I've been blogging here at Skeptophilia . Some of them are so far out t...

My novel In the Midst of Lions  opens with a character named Mary Hansard -- an ordinary forty-something high school physics teacher -- sudd...

I was driving through Ithaca, New York a while back, and came to a stoplight, and the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that said, ...

Dear readers, I'm going to take a short break from Skeptophilia  -- my next post will be Thursday, November 18.  I'll still be linin...

 If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynam...

Most scientifically-literate types know about the impossibility of reaching the temperature of -273.15 C, better known as "absolute zer...