Skeptophilia

For me, one of the coolest things about science is that even once you think you've got something pretty well figured out, you can always...

I'm a birdwatcher, which in my specific case kind of crosses the line into a mild mental illness.  I've traveled all over the world ...

Picture a place you know well.  Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school.  You can probably imagine it, remember what it's...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nabisco creating a hermetically-sealed, bomb-proof vault on the island of Svalbard, with the sole purpo...

Sometimes I have to tell y'all about something not because it's weird or controversial, but purely because it's cool. Today we...

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. Today we'll take a loo...

While I don't want to excuse mental laziness, I think it's understandable sometimes if laypeople come to the conclusion that for eve...