Skeptophilia

As a followup to yesterday's post, about my generally dubious take on the claim of a Mexican scientist that he'd discovered fossiliz...

Usually, when people think about finding extraterrestrial intelligence, they think of radio transmissions -- a trope that has been the basis...

One of my college physics professors made a statement to his class that was mind-boggling in its inaccuracy.  We'd been learning about t...

My fascination for astronomy started a long time ago.  I started learning the constellations when I was about six, and received a telescope ...