Skeptophilia

About fifteen years ago, I fulfilled a lifelong dream to go to Ecuador, a country I've been fascinated with since I was a kid.  I'm ...

One of the most pernicious tendencies in human thought is our arrogance.  The attitude that we know all there is to know, understand the uni...

Humans have amazingly short memories. I suppose that there's at least some benefit to this.  Unpleasant events in our lives would be far...

I used to ask a question to my biology classes, during the unit on ecology: what are the only two commonly-eaten fruits that are native to N...

The iconic movie Jurassic Park  has provided us with quite a number of quotable lines: "I hate it when I'm always right." ...

In order to produce new species -- so goes the evolutionary model -- you need two things: isolation (splitting off the population that will ...

The diversity you find among birds is really remarkable. There are differences in bill shape, from the weird angled beaks of flamingos, ...

There is nothing as dangerous as our attitude that if something isn't bothering us right here and right now, it can effectively be ignor...

I vividly recall my first visit to the American Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, perhaps fifteen years ago.  Having a fascinati...