Skeptophilia

Back when I was teaching, I ran into students with a lot of fringe-y beliefs, or at least unscientific ones.  But if you had to pick which o...

I find that one of the most useful questions to ask someone who makes an outlandish claim is, "How could that possibly work?" I ...

Suppose you were walking in the woods, and suddenly, you stumbled on a root, and fell flat on your face.  And while you were lying on your b...