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On the whole, I'm an optimist. It seems a happier way to be.  In general, I would rather expect people to behave well and occasionally b...

Many of us here in the United States have been appalled and dismayed by the response some people are having to the recent double-whammy of H...

As I write this, category-3 Hurricane Idalia is currently battering parts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.  It strengthene...

You might recall that when Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in October 2012, devastating large areas and taking 147 lives , we were qui...

One thing that seems to be a characteristic of Americans, especially American men, is their love of loud noises and blowing stuff up. I sh...

I have an update for those of you who are worried about when the world is going to end, or civilization is going to fall, which honestly wo...

Those of us in the northern slice of the United States have had to contend with unusually cold weather over the past few weeks, coupled with...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , and frequent contributors of topics thereto, sent me a link with the note, "Nothing like exp...

Tomorrow is the start of a new school year for me, and that probably explains why I had the reaction I did to a flyer that some friends of m...

In fiction, when an evil villain against whom you have fought long and hard is finally vanquished, you are generally depicted as being prett...

If I can sum up the rationalist view of the world in one sentence, it would be: your belief in something does not make it the truth. If yo...