Skeptophilia

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said (apropos of UFO sightings), "The human brain and perceptual systems are rife with ways of getti...

I think I share with a lot of people a difficulty in deciphering what someone is saying when holding a conversation in a noisy room.  I can ...

Mexican free-tailed bats ( Tadarida brasiliensis ) are remarkable animals.  They live in staggeringly huge colonies.  The largest known, in...

After yesterday's rather humbling post about how easy it is to fool the human senses, today we get knocked down another peg or two with ...

The week after I retired I made the mistake of saying to my wife, "I don't know what I'm going to do with all of my free time!...