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Because I apparently don't have enough to worry about, as a teacher, with the approval in Senate committee of the amazingly unqualifie...

A couple of days ago, a reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to a website that has a compilation of research purporting to show reverse c...

I always wince a little when I see those silly things pop up on Facebook that say things like, "Can you see the number in the pattern?...

In May of 2015, the brilliant and acerbic Andy Borowitz wrote a piece for The New Yorker  entitled " Earth Endangered by New Strain of ...

I got in a rather interesting -- well, I suppose you could call it a "discussion" -- with a Trump supporter yesterday. It came a...

In the early 1930s, a cadre of scientists in Germany saw the handwriting on the wall with respect to the rising forces of German nationalism...

There's a controversial idea in the realm of linguistics called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis .  Named after linguists Edward Sapir and Ben...