Skeptophilia

A couple of weeks ago, I was out for a run on a local trail, and I almost stepped on a snake. Fortunately, here in upstate New York, we don...

The following is a direct transcript of how I got welcomed into a multi-person business-related Zoom call a couple of years ago: Me: How are...

One of the reasons that it's (generally) much easier to learn to read a second language than it is to understand it in speech has to do ...

I've always been fascinated with memory. From the "tip of the tongue" phenomenon, to the peculiar (and unexplained) phenomeno...

There's one incorrect claim that came up in my biology classes more than any other, and that's the old idea that "humans only u...

Confirming something that people like Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz figured out years ago, researchers at Villanova University and the University...

As a writer of fiction, I have wondered for years where creative ideas come from.  Certainly a great many of the plots I've written have...

Sometimes I have thoughts that blindside me. The last time that happened was three days ago, while I was working in my office and our elde...

When I'm out in a crowded bar, I struggle with something that I think a lot of us do -- trying to isolate the voice of the person I'...

Like a lot of people, I'm struggling right now against sleep loss because of the silly switch from Standard to Daylight Savings Time, a ...