Skeptophilia

The concept of the umwelt  is a little mind-boggling. It's defined as "the world as perceived by a particular organism."  In s...

The news has been pretty uniformly dismal lately. I don't even have to list all the ways.  We've all been inundated by the headlin...

In my introductory neuroscience class, I always began the unit on our sensory systems by asking students how many senses they think we have....

The final project in my AP Biology class was to design a piece of original research, carry out an experiment, and report on the results.  I ...

We once owned a very peculiar border collie named Doolin.  Although from what I've heard, saying "very peculiar" in the same b...

Before I get into the subject of today's post, I want all of you to watch this two-minute video, entitled " Whodunnit? " ***...

I've always found Charles Bonnet syndrome  fascinating, and it's not just because the disorder was named after a scientist with whom...

I have a fascination for optical illusions. Not only are they cool, they often point out some profound information about how we process se...

One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange th...