Skeptophilia

Many of us here in the United States have been appalled and dismayed by the response some people are having to the recent double-whammy of H...

One thing that seems to be a characteristic of Americans, especially American men, is their love of loud noises and blowing stuff up. I shar...

As I write this, category-3 Hurricane Idalia is currently battering parts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.  It strengthene...

One thing that seems to be a characteristic of Americans, especially American men, is their love of loud noises and blowing shit up. I share...

You might recall that when Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in October 2012, devastating large areas and taking 147 lives , we were qui...

There's a danger in being a skeptic, and that is that you stand the risk of becoming a cynic -- moving from the stance of "show me...

Well, up here in lovely upstate New York we're about three-quarters of the way through the remnants of Hurricane Sandy, and we only lost...

Last night the remnants of Hurricane Isaac swept through upstate New York, bringing electrical storms and some much-needed rain to our area,...

Well, it's hurricane season, and we have a tropical storm and a tropical depression currently setting their sights on the Gulf of Mexico...