Skeptophilia

I don't always need to understand things to appreciate them. In fact, there's a part of me that likes  having my mind blown.  I find...

The phenomenon of transparency is way more interesting than it appears at first. I remember thinking about the concept when I was a kid, the...

Of all the bizarre and fascinating discoveries physicists have made in the last century and a half, I think the one that twists my brain the...

I was chatting with my younger son a couple of days ago.  He's a professional scientific glassblower, so anything having to do with the ...