Skeptophilia

One of the most intriguing sets of life forms I've ever heard of is the Ediacaran Assemblage . It dates from the late Precambrian Era --...

252 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a confluence of Very Unfortunate Events. First, most of the large continental land masses locked...

When I was young, I was very much attracted to stories where things worked out because they were fated to happen that way. It explains why s...

It's natural enough to think that humans are the only organisms that damage their own habitat.  We certainly seem to be doing a damn goo...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Louisiana, I took a class called Introduction to Astronomy from a fellow named Daniel Whitm...

The human brain is a pattern-seeking machine. We are evolved to look for correlations, probably because those correlations can be awfully us...