I love learning new things. I was especially happy when Neil Shubin’s “Your Inner Fish” was made into a three…
Author Smilodon's Retreat
For the past few decades, scientific publication in a peer-reviewed journal was the gold standard. When you read a peer-reviewed…
I’ve begun reading The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson. It is an epic fantasy novel and very,…
As I have more and more discussions on-line one of the most common responses to rejecting claims that I have…
This falls squarely in the skepticism field here and it’s actually a shame that I feel compelled to write about…
This is one of my favorite arguments from creationists and other anti-science people. Science can’t explain x, therefore all science is…
One of the recent trends of the last few decades has been to measure things and hold people accountable for…
So, the US Navy is about to deploy a railgun on a test bed ship, the Joint High Speed Vessel. The…
Several years ago (I say ‘several’ and that’s what we’re going stick with!), something relatively important happened in my life.…
So, the governor of Mississippi has just declared to the world that he is the leader of a hugely backward…