Skeptophilia

Next to the purely religious arguments -- those that boil down to "it's in the Bible, so I believe it" -- the most common obje...

One of the most shocking results from mathematics -- or even scholarship as a whole -- is Kurt Gödel 's Incompleteness Theorem . Like (I...

I've always been a bit in awe at people who are true math-adepts. Now, I'm hardly a math-phobe myself; having majored in physics, I ...

How long is the coastline of Britain? Answer: as long as you want it to be. This is not some kind of abstruse joke, and if it sounds like it...

There's an apparent mathematical paradox, of very long standing, that illustrates a fundamental problem with a lot of modern discourse. ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about the brilliant and tragic British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer scientist Alan Turi...

When I was in Calculus II, my professor, Dr. Harvey Pousson, blew all our minds. You wouldn't think there'd be anything in a calculu...

New from the "Well, I Coulda Told You That" department, we have: a study out of MIT showing that confident kids do better in mathe...

A friend of mine asked me yesterday if I'd ever heard of a "flux thruster atom pulser."  I said, "You mean, like in Back ...