Skeptophilia

My friend and fellow author Gil Miller , who has suggested many a topic for me here at Skeptophilia , threw a real doozy my way a couple of ...

The phenomenon of transparency is way more interesting than it appears at first. I remember thinking about the concept when I was a kid, the...

You wouldn't think that fish living three miles deep in the ocean, far beneath the level that sunlight can penetrate, would worry much a...

Natural selection is such an amazing driver of diversity.  As Richard Dawkins showed so brilliantly in his tour-de-force  The Blind Watchmak...

One of the things I love most about science is its capacity to astonish us. You can be really knowledgeable in a field, and then the natur...

Along Cayuga Lake, near where I live, is Milliken Station Power Plant.  On cool days its smokestack can be seen topped with a plume of steam...