Skeptophilia

It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here.  According to the current most widely-accepted cosmo...

The Copernican principle  is an idea from cosmology that can be summed up as "we're nothing special." I'm sure you all kno...

Today I'm going to focus on outer space, because if I don't I'll be forced to deal with events down here on Earth, and it's ...

Today's post is about a pair of new scientific papers that have the potential to shake up the world of cosmology in a big way, but first...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I did a unit on statistics and data, and how you tell if a measurement is worth paying attention to.  One o...

I've always loved Robert Frost's razor-sharp poem, written in 1920, called "Fire and Ice": Some say the world will end in ...

While our knowledge of the origin of the universe has grown tremendously in the past hundred years, there are still plenty of cosmological m...

When I was an undergraduate, I sang in the University of Louisiana Choir in a production of Franz Josef Haydn's spectacular choral work ...

One of the weirder claims of modern physics, which I first ran into when I was reading about string theory a few years ago, is that the univ...