Skeptophilia

I remember a few years ago noticing something odd.  While eating breakfast on work days, I'd finish, and always give a quick glance up a...

In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who h...

Coming right on the heels of yesterday's post about a star so large the astrophysicists are at a loss to explain how it even exists, tod...

Way back around 1910, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently found a curious patte...

Because in the last ten years saying, "Well, things can't get any weirder" has been a losing proposition, now we have: Donald ...

An evolutionary misfire  occurs when a trait evolved in one context, where it was an advantage to the organism, but then circumstances chang...

My thought process is like a giant game of free association at the best of times, and there have been occasions when I've tried to figur...