Skeptophilia

In the 1992 Winter Olympics , there was an eighteen-year-old French figure skater named Laëtitia Hubert .  She was a wonderful skater, even ...

There's a lot of human behavior that, looked at from a perspective as if you were studying us from the outside -- say, as an alien anthr...

I have been following, from some distance, the hue-and-cry over Simone Biles's removing herself from competition on the U.S. Olympic gym...

Before I run a race, I have to give myself a serious pep talk, because I'm the kind of person who always assumes the worst.  Although I...

The phenomenon of sports is a funny thing, isn't it? I say this even though there are sports I thoroughly enjoy.  I've rooted wild...

Two recent studies suggest the popular wisdom that if you want to improve your health, mood, and sense of well-being, get out and do stuff, ...

I've been told I have "resting scowl face."  I can't tell you the number of times I've been walking down the hall in t...

Many years ago, when I lived in Seattle, I was intermittently part of an amateur theater group.  I had several minor roles, but then finally...