Skeptophilia

When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...

I remember a while back reading an interesting paper that concluded that dogs have a concept of fairness and morality . There have been a nu...

In James Burke's brilliant series The Day the Universe Changed , there's a line that never fails to shock me when I think about it, ...

When I was about fourteen, I read Richard Adams's novel Watership Down . I had never experienced being completely swallowed up by a book...

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will ve...

For a variety of reasons I've decided to go back to work part time. Retirement is great, but because the universe has a perverse sense o...

I'm fortunate to have been raised in a bilingual home.  My mother's first language was French, and my dad (son of a father of French...

In the first part of my teaching career, I taught mainly physics and math, before switching to biology (which I then taught for the rest of ...

We once owned a very peculiar border collie named Doolin.  Although from what I've heard, saying "very peculiar" in the same b...