Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Paradoxes and pointlessness
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In his 1967 short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," writer R. A. Lafferty took one of the first looks at something that since...
Saturday, October 5, 2024
The treadmill
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I've mentioned before how my difficulties with math short-circuited my goal of becoming a researcher in physics, but the truth is, there...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Requiem for a visionary
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I was saddened to hear of the death of the brilliant British physicist Peter Higgs on Monday, April 8, at the grand old age of 94. Higgs i...
Monday, December 14, 2020
The modern glass ceiling
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Rosalind Franklin has become justly famous for her role in discovering the three-dimensional structure of the DNA double helix. Her specia...
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