Skeptophilia

Many indigenous tribes of eastern and central North America have legends about a catastrophic explosion in mid-air in the distant past. ...

The subject of today's post isn't anything new; it was just new to me, and, I suspect, will be to a good many of my readers, as well...

A couple of weeks ago I looked at the rather unsettling fact that the seeming benevolence of our home planet is something of an illusion.  A...

So most of you have probably been following the amazing landing of Philae, from the Rosetta comet study mission, on the comet 67-P Churyumov...