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If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands.  I...

Dear Readers, I am going to be taking a short break from Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post for a week and a half.  Lord willin...

It's funny the questions you don't think to ask.  You find out something, accept it without any objections, and only later -- someti...

Because here in the United States, many Americans are looking at tomorrow's election the way a man walking in a railway tunnel sees the ...

A common -- although, as it turns out, completely understandable -- error is to say that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun. No, I...

A layperson might be excused if looking up at the night sky, (s)he concluded that other than slight variations in color and brightness, one ...

It's difficult to talk about neutron stars without lapsing into superlatives.  They're the collapsed remnants of large stars -- tho...

I've always found the concept of the Strong Anthropic Principle wryly amusing. The idea here is that something (usually a benevolent d...

If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands. ...