Skeptophilia

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

One of the most insidious tendencies in human nature is the way we gravitate toward simple answers to complicated questions. I got started t...

When you think about it, wind is a strange phenomenon. In its simplest form, wind occurs when uneven heating of the surface of the Earth cau...

I've always had a fascination for the weather.  Especially violent weather; if I hadn't become a mild-mannered high school biology t...

In the last week the northern United States has been swept by a couple of significant winter storms that not only dumped a ton of snow all o...

Sometimes I bump into a piece of research that's just so cool I have to tell you about it. Yesterday when I was casting about for a topi...

Anyone who paid attention in ninth grade Earth Science class knows that climate and weather are not the same thing. This, of course, means...

New from the Woo-Woo Bullshit That Would Not Die department, we have: stories popping up all over the place claiming that the discovery of h...

Why is it that some people will believe anyone's pronouncements on anything, as long as said person is  not  a scientist? I and other...

The biggest winter storm yet this season has spun its way out into the north Atlantic, after burying parts of the northeast under as much as...