Skeptophilia

Charles Darwin eloquently expressed his own struggle with imagining how the vertebrate eye could have evolved.  If you spend any time readin...

There's a famous anecdote about British biologist J. B. S. Haldane .  Haldane was a brilliant geneticist and evolutionary biology but wa...

One of the most influential teachers I've ever had was my high school biology teacher, Jane Miller.  She had a way of making just about ...

Our ability to perceive color is, when you think about it, a peculiar thing. First, there's the rather hackneyed question of whether we ...

I find the science of personality fascinating, not least because we're only in the earliest stages of any kind of comprehensive understa...