Skeptophilia

Sometimes I bump into a piece of research that's just so cool I have to tell you about it. Yesterday when I was casting about for a topi...

In yesterday's post, we looked at a peculiar, as-yet unexplained radio transmission from Proxima Centauri, but there's an awful lot ...

You might recall that when Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in October 2012, devastating large areas and taking 147 lives , we were qui...

I swear, the conspiracy theorists are getting faster these days. In the past, it seemed like they'd at least wait until the dust settl...

In Paul McCaw's musical comedy The Trumpets of Glory , angels back various causes on Earth as a kind of competitive contest.  Anything f...

There's a danger in being a skeptic, and that is that you stand the risk of becoming a cynic -- moving from the stance of "show me...

Well, it's hurricane season, and we have a tropical storm and a tropical depression currently setting their sights on the Gulf of Mexico...