Awhile back, I visited Oklahoma’s largest paranormal carnival (which was written up here) hoping to take my usual skeptical angle on the…
Christian high holidays are inevitably a favorite time for believers to attempt to get their unbelieving or lapsed relatives to…
All week long, I’ve been continually astonished at how many people I know who have publicly expressed their support for…
Instead of my usual podcasts, this week I’ve been listening to Supreme Court oral arguments while commuting to and fro.…
Since I didn’t get in too much hot water for last week’s graph, I may as well take the trouble…
Celebrity gossip is ubiquitous and unavoidable, and so I can be excused for congratulating Steve Martin on recently becoming a…
I’d like to thank the organizers of Skeptics of Oz for putting together such an outstanding lineup this past weekend.…
Chas Stewart has a background in anthropology and a foreground in crimson and cream. He is also one of…
Happy Pi Day, everybody! There are literally dozens of ways to compute π, ranging from geometrical approximations to series expansions…
I’ve been reading Napoleon Chagnon’s new book of late, and trying to puzzle out whether the academic conflicts described therein…