Skeptophilia

A couple of days ago I was in one of those First World Problems situations that is nonetheless extremely annoying: I was stuck on hold. In t...

What is it with people trusting random laypeople over experts? Okay, yeah, I know experts can be wrong, and credentials are not an unshakabl...

One of the long-standing unanswered questions in medical science is the role of the mind in physical health. A well-known example is the pla...

I recently finished the outstanding novel The Song of Achilles  by Madeline Miller, which tells the story of the events of The Iliad , focus...

There's some weird stuff going on with M87 . M87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo.  It was discovered and...

Convergent evolution  occurs when only distantly-related species are under the same selective pressures, and evolve to look alike.  A partic...

Recently I've done posts about exploding lakes and colossal solar storms and places where continents are being torn in two, so it seems ...