Skeptophilia

Today I dodged a battle on social media, and I honestly don't know if it makes me a coward or just someone who tries to be prudent about...

Two nights ago, I watched "The Star Beast," the first of three sixtieth anniversary specials of my favorite show, Doctor Who .  As...

Way back in 1952, British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a mathematical model to account for pattern formation t...

Words matter. This comes up because of a couple of unrelated social media interactions that got me thinking about the fact that many people ...

Undoubtedly you are aware of the outrage from people on the anti-woke end of the spectrum about Disney's choice of Black actress Halle B...

I keep thinking I'm not going to need to write any more about LGBTQ issues, that I've said all I need to say, and yet... here we are...

I had a big sign on my classroom wall that said, "Don't believe everything you think." It's an important rule-of-thumb to ...

Dear straight people: I hope you recognize the path the United States is on, and where it leads.  Because it's easy to blind yourself to...

After I wrote a piece two weeks ago about Pride Month and how critical it is for LGBTQ young people to see positive representation in books...