Skeptophilia

Earlier this week I looked at three cool archaeological discoveries -- cave art in Indonesia, and two finds in Egypt, one of a bone from som...

As a biologist, I know that extinction is the way of the world.  Well above 99% of the species that have ever existed on Earth have gone ext...

I have the unfortunate tendency to get fascinated by things that are impossible to research. I was asked not too long ago about when and w...

It's funny the questions you don't think to ask.  You find out something, accept it without any objections, and only later -- someti...

Here's a bit of writing that should be familiar to most of you. Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Si þin nama gehalgod to becume þin r...

One of the most frustrating things about science, from the point of view of non-scientists, is that sometimes we have to say "we simply...

One of the things I find endlessly fascinating about evolution is that we can use information we have in the present to infer what happened ...