Skeptophilia

The origin of creativity is an ongoing source of fascination and puzzlement to me. I say this in part because I'm frequently asked, ...

I am forever astonished at the level of detail we can infer from fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old. The most recent examp...

Yesterday, we had an elderly gentleman in Spain who is building a spaceship to go to a planet that doesn't exist, and he should have kno...

As a fiction writer, I have to admit that my characters often feel very real to me.  I've said more than once that I feel like I'm g...

What the hell is going on in Illinois? Recently there have been no fewer than five separate reports of bizarre goings-on involving winged ...

I'm often asked why I am so confident in my disbelief of all of the ideas I lump together as "woo-woo" -- ghosts, psychics, Bi...

When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...