Skeptophilia

September is Bisexual Awareness Month, which ironically I only became aware of on September 1. I guess I must have known that at some point,...

From the Spectacular Backfire department, today we have: the guy who sponsored a bill to crack down on "pornographic and inappropriate...

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

Dear straight people: I hope you recognize the path the United States is on, and where it leads.  Because it's easy to blind yourself to...

When I was in eleventh grade, I took a class called Modern American Literature. To say I was a lackluster English lit student is something o...

Back in my teaching days, one of my least favorite things was when I realized that there was a faculty meeting after school. Faculty meeting...

I've been interested for a long time in the connection between musical and mathematical aptitude.  Part of this is my background as an e...

Because I'm tired of doing what we've done here lately, viz. looking at horrible scary things that could wipe out the human race if ...

When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...

It is a frequent source of bafflement to me that so many people don't change what they do when confronted with incontrovertible evidence...