Skeptophilia

Back in my teaching days, I was all too aware of how hard it was to generate any kind of enthusiasm for the details of biology in a bunch of...

The Neanderthals have gotten an undeservedly bad reputation. "Neanderthal" has become an insult for someone perceived as dumb, cr...

In the wonderful Star Trek: The Next Generation  episode "Tapestry," Captain Picard's life is in danger because an accident da...

This is a piece I wrote a few years ago, based on something that happened to a friend of mine (and scared the absolute bejeezus out of her)....

It's a long-standing tactic in politics to accuse the other side of what you're doing yourself, but sometimes this kind of hypocrisy...

I used to teach a semester-long introduction to neuroscience course.  It was a popular class; let's face it, the human brain and sensory...

A quick assessment might lead you to think that, at least with stuff down here on Earth, we've discovered about all there is to discover...