Skeptophilia

Given my ongoing fascination with languages, it's a little surprising that I didn't come across a paper published a while back in th...

My grandma used to say, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them -- the first  time." It's good advice, and when I h...

The Ordovician Period was a strange time in Earth's (pre)history. It lasted a little over forty million years, from about 485 million ye...

I was observing to a friend a couple of days ago how fast this year is going by.  It seems like only a week or two ago that we were all comp...

Sometimes we dodge a bullet. In September of 2023, seismologists all over the world recorded an odd periodic signal that lasted about nine ...

I've noticed a tendency amongst some people that is a little bit like what would happen if the sunk-cost fallacy had an unholy bastard c...

I wonder if you've heard of Marie Tharp .  I hope you have, but suspect you haven't.  Even in scientific circles, her name is not ex...