Skeptophilia

Back in December, I completely skeeved out some of my readers with a discussion of parasites , more specifically the protist Toxoplasma gond...

A few days ago I finished reading the wonderful new book by paleontologist Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinct...

[ N.B. : This post is a little on the technical side, if you're not a biology type.  Trust me, the work is worth it, because what these ...

Over the last couple of months I've been dealing with a health problem that is one of those collections of symptoms that falls somewhere...

I am endlessly amused (or endlessly frustrated, depending on my mood) by the way the same piece of information can be interpreted by differe...

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines disaster  to mean: A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or ...

The following is a direct transcript of how I got welcomed into a multi-person business-related Zoom call a couple of years ago: Me: How are...