Skeptophilia

If you've ever used Google Translate, you've probably noticed that it can be a little wonky. Take, for example, the anecdote about t...

When the Nazi party first came into power in Germany in the mid-1930s, one of the first things they did was to dramatically improve the effi...

Way back in 1980, biochemist, writer, and polymath Isaac Asimov wrote something that is even more accurate today than it was back then: Ther...

Although you don't tend to hear much about it, the Ordovician Period was a very peculiar time in Earth's history. From beginning (4...

Words matter. This comes up because of a couple of unrelated social media interactions that got me thinking about the fact that many people ...

I remember how stunned I was when I was in high school and found out that all energy release -- from striking a match to setting off a nucle...

I don't always need to understand things to appreciate them. In fact, there's a part of me that likes  having my mind blown.  I find...