Skeptophilia

Most of you probably know about the Drake Equation , a way to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe.  The Equatio...

The Ordovician Period was a strange time in Earth's (pre)history. It lasted a little over forty million years, from about 485 million ye...

In astronomy, an occultation  occurs when one celestial object passes in front of another, temporarily blocking it from sight (from the pers...

The subject of today's post isn't anything new; it was just new to me, and, I suspect, will be to a good many of my readers, as well...

It's all too easy lately to find reasons to criticize humans.  I'm guilty of contributing to it myself, by my focus on pseudoscienti...

So once again I've been sent a link several times with either "Oh, lord, here we go again" or "Ha!  This is real!  You s...

So it's December, which means it's time for Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Our Fellow Humans, and Death Asteroids. I'm not s...

It's okay to be ignorant, as long as it doesn't become a way of life. Even the best educated of us don't know stuff.  Lots of ...

One has to wonder what people get from forecasting the end of the world. Because some people are really  into this.  You've got your r...

So San Francisco made it through yesterday without being obliterated.  I'm pleased about that, because San Francisco is a great place an...