Skeptophilia

I've always found the idea of an unstable system  fascinating, even before I knew the name to put on it.  As a kid I liked to do things ...

Content warning : this post is about the mistreatment and neglect of animals.  There's nothing graphic or gratuitous, but if you're ...

One of the questions I get asked the most often, in the context of skepticism and critical thinking, is, "What would it take to change ...

Once again, I've had my mind blown by a set of experiments about the behavior of subatomic particles that teeters on the edge of what my...

There's an unfortunate but natural tendency for us to assume that because something is done a particular way in the culture we were rais...

Folks who have read a lot of my stories will recognize Flanagan's Irish Pub as a setting for a number of different scenes, and the frien...

So far this winter my upstate New York village has been lucky; despite repeated winter storms roaring through northeastern North America, we...