Skeptophilia

A couple of weeks ago, I was out for a run on a local trail, and I almost stepped on a snake. Fortunately, here in upstate New York, we don...

There's a peculiarity of the human brain called lateralization , which is the tendency of the brain to have a dominant side.  It's m...

The "what colors do you see in this photograph?" thing is back with us, only instead of a dress, this time it's a shoe. P...

Another peculiarity of the human brain is lateralization , which is the tendency of the brain to have a dominant side.  It's most clearl...

As a science teacher, one of the things I find fascinating and perplexing is the phenomenon of innumeracy . An innumerate person is someon...

One of the reasons I love science is that it challenges our preconceived notions about the way the world works. We are data-gatherers and ...