Skeptophilia

I received a response to a recent post in the form of an (actually quite friendly) email that posed a question I've been asked before, a...

Interested in exploring strange new worlds?  Eager to go where no one has gone before? Mars One , a non-profit group based in the Netherla...

Okay, now I've seen it all. This morning I stumbled across the single most idiotic thing I've ever run into.  Don't even try ...

Whenever I think the conspiracy theorists of the world have reached an all-time low, and can go no lower, they surprise me by getting out th...

Despite the fact that I scour the internet daily for weird news, sometimes I miss good ones.   I try not to fret about these oversights, how...

A few days ago I made a statement that believing in the various end-of-the-world predictions was about as foolish as thinking that we're...

Please allow me to start today's post with a brief genetics lesson. There is a feature of the genetic code called universality .  Put ...