Skeptophilia

Yesterday I was in my car on the way to an appointment in Ithaca, and I was listening to some classical music on satellite radio.  The annou...

California and Oregon are, literally, burning up.  A couple of days ago, there were five  named tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and Gulf o...

Given my near-obsessive interest in extraterrestrial life, I suppose it was inevitable that I've now been sent links to the latest resea...

 "Okay, that's cool, but what the hell am I looking at?" That was my reaction to a press release last week from the Harvard-Sm...

A few days ago, I posted a puzzle, and challenged my readers to try to solve it.  (If you haven't seen it yet, it's in my post ...

Sometimes I'll bump into a story that is so down my alley that I'm surprised I didn't find out about it earlier.  That was my re...

 I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I strongly suspect that every time I taught my biology students about the physiology of colo...