Skeptophilia

Every once in a while a piece of scientific research comes along that is so clever and elegant that I read the entire paper with a smile on ...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia sent me a link with the note, "Now I've heard everything." The link was to the home ...

When I was about nine years old, I went to live with my paternal grandmother for a year. Ostensibly the reason was that my parents were in t...

When I was about fourteen, I read Richard Adams's novel Watership Down . I had never experienced being completely swallowed up by a book...

Last September I took a job working half-time, providing companion care for a senior gentleman who lives in a full-care facility about twent...

There's a peculiarity of the human brain called lateralization , which is the tendency of the brain to have a dominant side.  It's m...

A friend of mine has characterized the teaching of science in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college as follows: Element...