Skeptophilia

Almost all of us implicitly trust our own memories. Experiment after experiment, however, has shown that this trust is misplaced.  Even if y...

Like many people my age, I recall vividly when Carl Sagan's series Cosmos  first aired.  I was in my late teens, and I and my friends ea...

In the brilliant, mind-bending dark comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once , Michelle Yeoh plays (to absolute perfection) the laundromat o...

It's easy to get beaten down by the constant barrage of bad news. This effect is amplified if you, like me, suffer from anxiety and depr...

Sometimes being a skeptic means answering the question, "So what happened?" with the rather unsatisfying response, "We don...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about the (in)famous sort-of anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, author of bestsellers like The Teachings of Don...

I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees 's wonderful book Just Six...