Skeptophilia

One thing that never fails to leave me feeling awestruck is when I consider that astronomers figured out the shape and size of the Milky Way...

I was an undergraduate when the original Cosmos  first aired. It was back in 1980, and I still remember being blown away by it all -- the me...

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So wrote William Shakespeare in Hamle...

Carl Sagan once said, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." I think that's one of the main things that att...

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...

The universe is a dangerous place. I'm not talking about crazy stuff happening down here on Earth, although a lot of that certainly qual...

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...

The brilliant British astrophysicist Becky Smethurst said, "The cutting edge of science is where all the unknowns are."  And far ...

I was maybe sixteen years old when I first read H. P. Lovecraft's atmospheric and terrifying short story "At the Mountains of Madne...