Skeptophilia

I've always had a fascination for the weather.  Especially violent weather; if I hadn't become a mild-mannered high school biology t...

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,...

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...

I find it puzzling how few people actually understand weather. Partly, this puzzlement is because I've always found it completely fas...