How Do We Know

Here is an excellent article from PBS on the bogus study behind the rumor that millennials are "growing horns" from cell phone u...

Caleb Scharf has written a pretty interesting essay entitled " The Selfish Dataome " in the October issue of Nautilus . In it he...

Andy Borowitz reports that "Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the abilit...

It's hard to believe that Carl Sagan died 20 years ago.  But it's worth remembering his death because it's worth remembering hi...

In the  March issue of The New Yorker  Jill Lepore posted an amusing rant on reason, truth, lies, empiricism and belief in the "Age of...

Is it Christmas everywhere in the Universe?   Dennis Overbye, one of my favorite science journalists, has taken a stab at this questio...

Dean Miller, the Director of the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University posted this warning  on his New York Time blog.  News l...