Skeptophilia

I suspect that many of my readers will resonate with my desire to fritter away less time on social media. I don't mean the actual "...

I think one of the reason I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter is that my feed sounds way too much like my brain. I do a lot of what...

I should probably avoid social media altogether, given what a cesspit of ugliness it can be sometimes. Unfortunately, it's provided the ...

I got onto social media some years ago for two main reasons; to stay in touch with people I don't get to see frequently (which since the...

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. You're over on Twitter, and you post a link making a political claim of some sort.  Shortly ther...

A number of years ago, I was talking with a friend about her recent divorce from a man who was a serial philanderer and emotional abuser, an...

While I don't want to excuse mental laziness, I think it's understandable sometimes if laypeople come to the conclusion that for eve...

As I have mentioned more than once, there's pretty good evidence lately that the aliens who are in charge of the computer simulation we...

It's been a good while since I've written a post about a story that's just plain loony. Maybe it's because here in the Uni...

I'm a firm believer in the idea that most people, most of the time, are trying as hard as they can to do the right thing. Yes, we ofte...

In today's contribution from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have: a study out of the University of Buffalo that examined the per...