Skeptophilia

Like many people my age, I recall vividly when Carl Sagan's series Cosmos  first aired.  I was in my late teens, and I and my friends ea...

There are certain pieces of terrain that are just peculiar.  We tend to give them evocative names, because they  are  evocative; and this of...

One of the reasons that it is critical that we all be science-literate is because it is becoming increasingly apparent that the popular medi...