Skeptophilia

The attitude of many laypeople toward medical science can be summed up as "all you have to do is." Never mind those silly experts,...

Ever heard of cocoliztli ? In one way, it's shocking if you haven't, and in another, hardly surprising at all, because the vast majo...

Commercial farmers of perennial crops have an inherent problem. The cheapest, most efficient, and most cost-effective method of growing some...

My novella We All Fall Down  is set during some of the most awful years humanity has ever lived through -- the middle of the fourteenth cent...

We humans are poor at assessing risk. It's something I've commented upon before; we tend to vastly overestimate the likelihood of ...