Skeptophilia

Remember how in old college math textbooks, they'd present some theorem or another, and then say, "Proving this is left as an exerc...

When I was a graduate student in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington -- an endeavor that lasted one semester, at whic...

While I don't want to excuse mental laziness, I think it's understandable sometimes if laypeople come to the conclusion that for eve...

A paper that appeared in the American Sociology Review  in January, by Oliver Hahl (of Carnegie Mellon Institute) and Minjae Kim and Ezra W....

I've always been curious about why politicians spend so much time trying to make their constituencies afraid. A scared person, you wou...

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, ...