Skeptophilia

When you think about it, wind is a strange phenomenon. In its simplest form, wind occurs when uneven heating of the surface of the Earth cau...

I've wondered for years why certain pieces of music elicit such a powerful emotional response. Partly that's because I react powerfu...

The first thing I learned in my studies of linguistics is that languages aren't static. It's a good thing, because my field is histo...

As most of you undoubtedly know, on Monday, April 8, there's going to be a total solar eclipse visible in much of North America.  I'...

The Moon orbits the Earth in such a way that the same side always faces us.  Put another way, its periods of revolution and rotation are the...

Back on the ninth of June, 53 B.C.E., seven legions of Roman heavy infantry were lured into the desert near the town of Carrhae (now Harran,...

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could , they didn't stop to think if they should ." That quote f...