Skeptophilia

Yesterday I was thinking about sex. Not like that .  My intention is to keep this blog PG-13.  I meant sexual reproduction in general, and t...

Sex is a pretty cool phenomenon, and it's not just because it's kinda fun. How exactly sexual reproduction first evolved isn't w...

There are some truly astonishing features of living things that are so familiar we stop even thinking about them, and somewhere near the top...

It's natural enough to think that humans are the only organisms that damage their own habitat.  We certainly seem to be doing a damn goo...

One of the most interesting features of evolution is coevolution  -- where two unrelated species influence each other's evolutionary pat...

One of the most pernicious tendencies in human thought is our arrogance.  The attitude that we know all there is to know, understand the uni...

So much of the damage we've done to the planet hasn't been deliberate destructiveness; it's been due to our carelessly stomping ...

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the discovery and decipherment of a codex written in Nahuatl , one of the languages spoken by the Aztecs...

There's a story about Socrates, who was asked what he thought about his reputation for being the smartest man in the world. The great ph...