Skeptophilia

A scarily long list of friends who have been coping with serious illnesses in the last six months has brought home to me how fragile life is...

When I was about twenty, I stumbled upon the book The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav.  The book provides a non-mathematical introducti...

Hard as it is to believe, we're over halfway through 2025.  On the one hand, it seems like it's flown.  On the other, any amount of ...

I'm too trusting sometimes. I think it comes from the fact that I try my hardest to treat people kindly and fairly, so I make the mistak...

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea who you are." I can't tell you how many times I've had to utter that sentence.  Regular...

You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes 's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nas...

If I had to pick my favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the clear winner would be "The Inner Light."  Some classi...