Skeptophilia

In many places, people argue vehemently about politics, religion, or culture.  In my home place of southern Louisiana, the hill people will ...

Valentine's Day was a couple of days ago, and over a nice dinner I fixed for my sweetheart, we were talking about the perplexing questio...

One of the things that even folks conversant in the evolutionary model sometimes don't know is the extent to which we are composite orga...

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...

Anyone know what the world's largest flower is? Chances are, some of you know that honor goes to the bizarre Indonesian species Rafflesi...

On her mom's side, my wife is descended from English nobility, a fact of which she reminds me periodically when I get uppity.  Her great...

I had a rather terrifying nightmare last night, and as is usual with such things, the retelling doesn't convey how absolutely awful it w...