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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...

After my diatribe a couple of days ago about the misuse of the word dimension , I got into a discussion with a friend that can be summed up ...

As long-time readers of Skeptophilia  know, it really torques my lug nuts when people take perfectly good scientific terms, re-define them h...

I don't really regret the weird, meandering path I took through the educational system -- but I have to admit to a bit of envy when it c...