Skeptophilia

Some days, being a skeptic is a losing proposition. Only days after I posted a desperate plea for people to please  check sources before pos...

New from the "Sublime-to-Ridiculous" department -- following up on our discussion yesterday about abstruse concepts from physics, ...

My novel In the Midst of Lions  opens with a character named Mary Hansard -- an ordinary forty-something high school physics teacher -- sudd...

 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...

Today we're fortunate to feature a guest post by my friend, fellow blogger, and twin-separated-at-birth, Andrew Butters, whose blog Pota...

Have I told you my favorite joke? Heisenberg and Schrödinger are out for a drive, and a cop pulls them over. The cop says to Heisenberg,...

I try to avoid writing about topics I don't fully understand, because that's just too great an opportunity for my sticking my foot i...

Let's end the week on a happy, if surreal, note with a new experiment in quantum physics that calls into question the arrow of time. T...