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If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynami...

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle , a scientist develops a polymorph of ice with a very strange property. Unlike ordinary ice, t...

Two of the most extensively-tested laws of physics are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics -- and in the nearly two centuries since ...

After the warmest fall I can remember, we here in upstate New York finally are seeing cooler weather.  I greet this with mixed feelings.  As...

Dear readers, I'm going to take a short break from Skeptophilia  -- my next post will be Thursday, November 18.  I'll still be linin...

 If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynam...

Two of the most extensively-tested laws of physics are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics -- and in the nearly two centuries since ...

Sometimes it appears that people only want to learn enough science to (1) sound scientific, and (2) prop up whatever ideas they already beli...