Skeptophilia

Last year I did a post about the remarkable Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus , whose passion for history (coupled with an u...

Ever have the experience of getting into a car, closing the door, and accidentally shutting the seatbelt in the door? What's interesting...

 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...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

I'm of two minds about Wikipedia. I think it's a great resource for quick lookups, and use it myself for that sort of thing.   A s...