Skeptophilia

Some days, being a skeptic is a losing proposition. Only days after I posted a desperate plea for people to please  check sources before pos...

One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about this...

The cause of lightning has been strangely elusive. Oh, in the broadest-brush terms, we've understood it for a while.  The rapidly-risin...

I don't know if you've had the experience of running into a relatively straightforward concept that your brain just doesn't seem...

In the very peculiar Doctor Who  episode "Joy to the World," the character of Joy Almondo is being controlled by a device inside a...

When I was an undergraduate, I sang in the University of Louisiana Choir in a production of Franz Josef Haydn's spectacular choral work ...

One of the weirder claims of modern physics, which I first ran into when I was reading about string theory a few years ago, is that the univ...

One of the most frustrating things for insatiably curious laypeople like myself is to find that despite our deep and abiding interest in a t...

The idea of Intelligent Design is pretty flimsy, at least when it comes to biology.  The argument boils down to something the ID proponents ...