Skeptophilia

Today I'm going to write about a piece of research that isn't controversial, or deeply thought-provoking, or politically relevant, ...

New from the "Don't You People Even Watch  Science Fiction Movies?" department, we have: bioengineers at Cornell University re...

Why are humans so prone to falling for complete bunk? I ask this question because of two rather distressing studies that I ran into a whil...

As I sit in my office writing this, the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris is burning. It's hard for me to describe what I am feeling.  ...

I'm a firm believer in the idea that most people, most of the time, are trying as hard as they can to do the right thing. Yes, we ofte...

One of the most utterly terrifying phenomena on Earth is called a pyroclastic flow . Pyroclastic flows are explosive eruptions of volcanoe...

It's awfully easy to get discouraged lately. The news seems to go from bad to worse every day.  Government corruption, terrorist attac...