Skeptophilia

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...

A recommendation to anyone who wants to completely revolutionize the scientific world: learn some damn science first. It's why I get so ...

You know, I'm beginning to think that every time I want to write a piece about cosmology or physics, I should just write "Einstein ...

I find it nothing short of mind-boggling how far we've come in creating equipment with which to explore the cosmos. The first telescope ...

In the beginning of my as-yet unpublished novel In the Midst of Lions , the character of Mary Hansard realizes one day that she can no longe...

I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...

I keep waiting for a day to go by in which someone in the Trump administration doesn't say something completely batshit insane. The la...

In yesterday's post, I made the claim that men don't necessarily always think only about sports or sex, that sometimes we think abou...