Skeptophilia

Today I have for you two news stories that are interesting primarily in juxtaposition. The first is a press release about a study out of St...

Two nights ago, I watched "The Star Beast," the first of three sixtieth anniversary specials of my favorite show, Doctor Who .  As...

I got into a curious exchange with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago about Richard Dawkins's recent statement that "biologic...

Way back in 1952, British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a mathematical model to account for pattern formation t...

By now, most of you have probably heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican representative from Georgia who narrowly edged out both ...

In case you had run short of things to be outraged about, today we have a story that the Trump administration is trying to push a legal defi...

Today we have two stories that are interesting in juxtaposition. The first is out of North Bend, Oregon, where two high school students re...

Yesterday I ran into the story of Sigourney Coyle, the high school student in Emmaus, Pennsylvania who is claiming she is being discriminat...

I know that social media lends itself to vitriol, but for sheer ugly invective I don't think I've ever seen anything like the posts ...

Four days ago, I wrote about a new study that appears to show that trans-cranial magnetic stimulation of the posterior medial frontal cortex...