Skeptophilia

My fascination with languages goes back a very long way.  I was raised bilingual -- French was my mother's first language, and all of he...

All of us learned about gravity in elementary school, often starting with the anecdote about Isaac Newton seeing a falling apple and wonderi...

It's virus season, which thus far I've been able to avoid participating in, but every time I go to the grocery store I see people wh...

Right now, here in the wilds of upstate New York, it's cold, gray, and snowy.  They say our area has a "four-season climate" -...

The danger of posting something and saying, "Wow, how ridiculous is this  claim?" is that my loyal readers take that as some kind ...

The woo-woo world is currently running about making excited little bleating noises because of a recent set of odd occurrences in Utah that ...

A couple of days ago I was in my car, listening to Sirius XM Satellite Radio's station Symphony Hall , and was delighted when one of my ...