Skeptophilia

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the spike in atmospheric oxygen concentration -- by some estimates, rising to 35% -- during the Carboni...

I know we really don't need anything else to worry about.  World events have been depressing enough, and here in the United States we...

About 183 million years ago -- during the Toarcian Age , one of the subdivisions of the early Jurassic Period -- there was a sudden and puzz...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, which suggested that -- from a biochemical standpoint, at least -- extraterrestrial life might be w...

It's a point I've made here more than once; if you're trying to convince someone of something, your argument is not  made strong...

Whenever we have a wet summer -- not an uncommon occurrence in our rainy climate -- we have a plague of little pests trying to get into our ...

I still remember when I was about twenty years old, and I first heard about Carl Sagan's proposal to terraform Venus. On first glance,...

Sometimes it appears that people only want to learn enough science to (1) sound scientific, and (2) prop up whatever ideas they already beli...

There is nothing like blatant hypocrisy to put me in a blood-boiling rage. It's even worse when the hypocrisy is coupled with mealy-mo...

I think my most common thought, while reading a lot of woo-woo writing, is "Learn some damn science before you pretend you know what yo...