Skeptophilia

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  know that I've been a musician for a very long time.  I started on the flute when I was a teenager, mor...

We had a hellacious thunderstorm last night, and while listening to the rumbling, the rain falling, and the wind howling, I was reminded of ...

You wouldn't think that fish living three miles deep in the ocean, far beneath the level that sunlight can penetrate, would worry much a...

I know I often write about strange and unexpected discoveries out there in the universe in the context of how much more we have to learn, bu...

Yesterday I ran into two unrelated studies that are kind of interesting in juxtaposition. The first was in the journal Heritage Science , ...

My wife and I live on a 3.5 acre bit of land in the hills of upstate New York.  We're lucky to have that kind of space, and the place it...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Louisiana, I and several of my friends were blown away by the original series Cosmos,  writ...