Skeptophilia

Today I'm asking a question not because I'm trying to lead you in any particular direction, but because I honestly am not sure about...

A month ago I wrote about an alarming study that looks at the population decline amongst American bird species .  We're not talking smal...

I am deeply ambivalent about running. On the one hand, while I'm doing it, every fiber of my being is begging me to stop.  I'm sho...

It is natural, I suppose, to surround oneself with people whose political, religious, and philosophical beliefs we share.  We tend to get al...

I usually don't blog about what other people put in their blogs.  This kind of thing can rapidly devolve into a bunch of shouted opinio...

My job would be easier, as a skeptic, if humans were basically rational beings. The fact is, though, we're not controlled solely by th...