Skeptophilia

No one would be happier than me if it turned out there was an afterlife. Well, at least some  types of afterlife.  The tortured-forever-in...

The argument from ignorance  is a curious phenomenon. The gist is that people take their lack of understanding of some phenomenon, and fro...

As a fiction writer, I am constantly working to make sure my writing is engaging.  What writers want, after all, is to keep readers turning ...

If you think that scientists are a bunch of dry-as-dust, humorless nerds, all you have to do to realize you were wrong is to read about Thur...

I've always been fascinated by bilingualism. Part of this is that I was raised, more or less, bilingual.  I say "more or less...

There's a claim I've now seen three times on social media that claims the ancient Egyptians knew the speed of light . This is a pr...

In what can only be described as a confluence of terrible news, catastrophically strong Hurricane Florence is now taking direct aim at North...