Skeptophilia

It's inevitable that as Skeptophilia  has grown in popularity, it's also attracted some attention of the less-positive sort. Let me ...

Last week I ran across an article in the journal Science  about our capacity for creating "mirror life," and the risks thereof .  ...

It's funny the rabbit holes fiction writers get dragged down sometimes. This latest one occurred because of two things that happened kin...

I know there are a lot of reasons why people believe weird shit.  It's tempting to settle on the self-congratulatory solution of "B...

The universe is a dangerous place. Much of what we've created -- the whole superstructure of civilized life, really -- is built to give ...

My post yesterday, about how the profit motive in (and corporate control of) media has annihilated any hope of getting accurate representati...

I haven't exactly kept it a secret how completely, utterly fed up I am with media lately. This goes from the miasmic depths of YouTube, ...