Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
Friday, June 17, 2022
A commerce in death
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My novella We All Fall Down is set during some of the most awful years humanity has ever lived through -- the middle of the fourteenth cent...
Thursday, June 16, 2022
Reality vs. allegory
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Today's topic came to me a couple of days ago while I was watching a new video by one of my favorite YouTubers , Sabine Hossenfelder. S...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The sound of music
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One of the most important things in my life is music, and to me, music is all about evoking emotion. A beautiful and well-performed song or ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The ghost in the machine
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I've written here before about the two basic camps when it comes to the possibility of a sentient artificial intelligence. The first is ...
Monday, June 13, 2022
The google trap
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The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking said, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." S...
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Locked into error
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Back in 2011, author Kathryn Schulz did a phenomenal TED Talk called " On Being Wrong ." She looks at how easy it is to slip into...
Friday, June 10, 2022
There's a word for that
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I've always had a fascination for words, ever since I was little. My becoming a writer was hardly in question from the start. And when...
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