Skeptophilia

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 was fortunate enough that the day-job of my bandmate of many years, Kathy Selby, was working as a physicist at Cornell University. As you ...

I know I've snarked before about the how unbearably goofy the old 1960s television show Lost in Space  was, but I have to admit that eve...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about a discovery of fossils that seem to have come from animals killed the day the Chicxulub Meteo...

You've all heard of dark matter , the strange stuff that comprises 85% of the total matter in the universe and about a quarter of its ov...

I have a sneaking suspicion that the physicists are on the threshold of a paradigm-breaking discovery. The weird data have been building u...

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...