Skeptophilia

In case you needed something else to facepalm about, today I stumbled on an article in Vice  about people who are blending AI with religion....

If yesterday's post -- about creating pseudo-interactive online avatars for dead people -- didn't make you question where our use of...

Some years ago I was in a musical trio called Alizé that specialized in traditional French folk music.  One weekend we played a gig at a loc...

There are three reasons I don't tend to put much stock in conspiracy theories. The first is that humans are seriously bad at keeping the...

In evolutionary biology, it's always a little risky to attribute a feature to a specific selective pressure. Why, for example, do humans...

I'm notoriously un-tech-savvy.  Or, to put it more accurately, my techspertise is very narrow and focused.  I've learned a few thing...

Some years ago, I injured my left knee doing martial arts, and a couple of weeks later found myself inside an MRI machine.  The technician, ...

My lack of technological expertise is fairly legendary in the school where I work.  When I moved  this year into a classroom with a "Sm...

Whenever people call computers "time-saving devices," I always chuckle in a sardonic fashion. My computer at work could probably q...

It's an increasingly technological world out there, and it's to be expected that computers and all of their associated trappings are...