Skeptophilia

California and Oregon are, literally, burning up.  A couple of days ago, there were five  named tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Gulf o...

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover f...

Some days it seems like it would be a good move to get off social media altogether. This is largely because I'm so easily pissed off. ...

There are several topics about which I think, "Okay, I've said all that needs to be said about that.  I've plumbed the depth of...

Call me naïve, but on some level I still can't quite believe we've gotten to the point in the United States where our elected offici...

The latest from the "Why the Hell Are We Still Having to Fight This Battle?" department, we have: a new rule within the Department...

One of the most important things about learning some general critical thinking skills is that it keeps you from falling for bullshit. Both...

I read an article on CNN  yesterday that really pissed me off, something that seems to be happening more and more lately. The article, ent...

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist during the Stalin years, whose interest in trying to improve crop yields led him into some seriou...

I can't remember when I've ever been this worried about our capacity for seriously fucking up the world we live in. Strong words, ...

Remember what I said about how every time I think things in our government have reached the absolute nadir, someone just raises the nadir-ba...