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Water is one of those things that seems ordinary until you start looking into it. The subject always puts me in mind of the deeply poignant ...

Water is one of those things that seems ordinary until you start looking into it. The subject always puts me in mind of the deeply poignant ...

Water is one of those things that seems ordinary until you start looking into it. The subject always puts me in mind of the deeply poignan...

Thanks to a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I now know that apparently there is a growing number of people who believe that water is not H2O....

In further adventures of friends and loyal readers of Skeptophilia  trying to induce me to do a skull-fracture-inducing faceplant, today we ...

Because I am totally disheartened by the news, frustrated by the lack of critical thinking everywhere I look, and also because my blender ex...

It's been a while since we've had a new bizarre alt-med claim to poke fun at, so I was delighted when a loyal reader sent me a link ...

Popular media make me crazy sometimes. It's intensely frustrating to see science misrepresented by news outlets, and people unquestion...

When I was thirteen years old, I witnessed a car crash in front of my parents' house. It was a bright red convertible, going far too f...

There's something about water that is mysterious.  It comprises, by some estimates, an average of 65% of the mass of living tissue.  We...