Skeptophilia

I'm currently reading the 2006 book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions , by the brilliant...

A major underpinning of our understanding of physics has to do with symmetry  and conservation laws . Both have to do with order, balance, a...

A couple of days ago, I was talking with my son about the Standard Model of Particle Physics (as one does). The Standard Model is a theoret...

A couple of months ago, I read Paul J. Steinhardt's wonderful book The Second Kind of Impossible , about his (and others') search fo...

Everyone knows that most living things are symmetrical, and the vast majority of them bilaterally symmetrical (i.e. a single line down the m...

For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was constrained. This has huge implications ...

The question "why are we here?" has vexed scientists and philosophers alike. The philosophical answers to this are beyond the pu...

Yesterday I ran into a "proof of the existence of god" I'd never seen before; the idea that there are mathematical patterns th...