Skeptophilia

To start out with the tl:dr -- no, despite what you may have heard, physicists do not have a working model of a warp drive . Look, no one wo...

Being a skeptic and a scientist does not  mean you are immune to the emotional side of life. Well, at least I'm  not.  It may well be th...

I grew up watching television shows like  Lost in Space  and  Star Trek , and the first movie I ever saw in the theater was 2001: A Space Od...

As a science teacher, I get kind of annoyed with the media sometimes. The misleading headlines are bad enough.  I remember seeing headline...

One of the best things about science is that it is just so freakin' cool.  I think that's why I have never really understood aficion...