Skeptophilia

Seismologists and volcanologists are unusual amongst scientists in that for the most part, what they're studying are things that are per...

A guy is driving through Texas, and passes a barn.  It's got a bullseye painted on the side -- with a bullet hole in the dead center. He...

I didn't realize how complicated it is to calculate the magnitude of an earthquake. Most of us are probably familiar with the Richter Sc...

There are two basic kinds of reasoning; deduction and induction.   Deduction consists of putting together statements about generalizations,...