Skeptophilia

My novel The Scattering Winds  is the second of a trilogy, of which the first book ( In the Midst of Lions ) is scheduled to be out this sum...

Can I beg scientists to please please puhleeeez stop giving names to scientific phenomena that induce the woo-woos to have multiple orgasms?...

A bit over 23 years ago, a friend introduced me to a woman she'd known since they were toddlers together.  I was recovering from an unpl...

I've always had a fascination for the weather.  Especially violent weather; if I hadn't become a mild-mannered high school biology t...

When we've gone to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., I always gravitate toward the prehistoric animals. I guess that...

Last week a gardener friend and I were talking about the fact that some plants are extreme specialists -- they only thrive in a very narrow ...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy. It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal story...