Skeptophilia

Let me start out by saying that what you're about to read is in no way meant to be critical of scientists in general, nor the entire sci...

You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes 's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nas...

Today we have three stories that are absolutely horrifying in juxtaposition. The first is a paper that came out a couple of days ago in Nat...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the spike in atmospheric oxygen concentration -- by some estimates, rising to 35% -- during the Carboni...

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover fro...

Like many people, I've been watching the news, photographs, and video footage coming in from the fires in the Los Angeles region with fe...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation  (AMOC), sometimes nicknamed "the Atlantic Conveyor," is an enormous oceanic curre...

I know we really don't need anything else to worry about.  World events have been depressing enough, and here in the United States we...

Sometimes we dodge a bullet. In September of 2023, seismologists all over the world recorded an odd periodic signal that lasted about nine ...

Today, we have three stories that are particularly interesting in juxtaposition. The first one is heartbreaking.  A unique species of cactus...