Skeptophilia

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...

Our dog Guinness has brought home the truth of the quip that cats are teenagers, dogs are toddlers. His engine has two settings: "full ...

In the brilliant but devastating Doctor Who  episode "Midnight," the Doctor is on a sightseeing expedition that turns deadly when ...

Given my inability to recognize faces, I've developed a number of compensatory mechanisms.  One is that I remember people by memorizing ...

When the pandemic started, and I first realized what the implications were, I thought the effect of it on me personally was going to be less...

There were three magic words that used to be able to induce me to do almost anything, regardless how catastrophically stupid it was: "I...

As if we needed anything to make us less confident about what goes on inside our skulls, an article in e! Science News appeared on Monday, ...

As always, the Yiddish language has a word for it, and the word is "yutz." A yutz is a person with no social graces.  As is typi...