Skeptophilia

How long is the coastline of Britain? Answer: as long as you want it to be. This is not some kind of abstruse joke, and if it sounds like it...

In the Doctor Who  episode "The Eaters of Light," the Twelfth Doctor and his companions, Bill and Nardole, go back to second-centu...

Humans have been modifying their own environment for a very long time. Our capacity for building stuff is pretty extraordinary.  Birds build...

In September, I started taking piano lessons. I've played the piano off and on for years (more off than on, I'm afraid), but was ent...

Around 12,900 years ago, the world was warming up after the last major ice age.  Climatologists call it the " Late Glacial Interstadial...

If you needed further evidence that whoever is controlling the simulation we're all trapped in has gotten drunk and/or stoned, and now t...

My first trip overseas, back in 1995, was an ambitious one; I did a month-long solo hike across England, starting on the shore of the Irish ...