Skeptophilia

It's amazing how far human knowledge has come in only a hundred years. Consider the following about the year 1924: This is the year we w...

In James Burke's brilliant series The Day the Universe Changed , there's a line that never fails to shock me when I think about it, ...

I was bummed to hear about the death of the inimitable Cloris Leachman  a week and a half ago at the venerable age of 94.  Probably most fam...

One of the hallmarks of the human condition is curiosity.  We spend a lot of our early years learning by exploring, by trial-and-error, so i...

I've written before on the topic of the Dunning-Kruger effect , the idea that we all tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a topic (...

My dad used to say that ignorance was only skin deep, but stupid goes all the way to the bone. There's a lot to that.  Ignorance can b...