Skeptophilia

As much as I love the movie Contact , trying to find extraterrestrial life isn't just a matter of tuning in to the right radio frequency...

In my novel Sephirot , the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of ...

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist during the Stalin years, whose interest in trying to improve crop yields led him into some seriou...

My mom was an extremely devout Roman Catholic, and I still recall her instructing me to "pray to St. Jude " when I was worried abo...

In Haruki Murakami's haunting and surreal short story "Kino" (from his collection Men Without Women ), Kino is a quiet and una...

Maybe it's because I'm fundamentally a home body, but I find it really hard to understand what could have driven our distant ancesto...

What comes to mind when you think about the Isle of Skye ? Chances are, it's one of three things. The first is the stunningly beautiful ...