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Evolutionary biologists have determined that the most influential factor in human evolution in the past ten thousand years is human culture itself. Raising cattle has let us drink milk, living in houses has made our skeletons lighter, and Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” will make the next generation deaf. Growing up I was always fascinated, obsessed even, with the paranormal. I would watch all the primetime specials purporting to investigate UFOs, psychics, and of course ghosts. Sure I didn’t believe in every psychic, UFO sighting, and ghost story I ever heard. In fact, I thought that probably over 99% of all [...] Recently, scientists found possible precursors to life way out in the middle of space. This is really cool, but I started wondering, “What will the Mainstream Media say?” So I asked my old friend, the Skeptic Psychic, and after peering into his bowl of homeopathic tea leaves suspended in a 9% alcohol lager, this is [...] As some of you may have seen, one of Lisa’s posts and one of mine have been nominated for inclusion into The Young Australian Skeptics Blog Anthology. I’d like to congratulate my fellow nominee, and say I’m very happy the two of us got noticed. I’ve been a writer for a while, but I’ve never [...] Even if you haven’t yet read Time’s new article, Who’s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?, I bet most of you have answered the question already. The author, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is no stranger to the issue of autism and wrote a book about his autistic brother. While the article takes a hard-line on McCarthy’s belief that [...] David Kirby: Evidence of Lazy Editors There are two reasons why I write for this blog. The first is from that part of me that’s altruistic. From the minute I knew the New York City Skeptics existed, I wanted to do what I could to help the organization out, and when all is said and [...] I received an interesting response to what I thought would be a light topic when, on Friday, I wrote a critique of the HuffPo’s reporting on two stories that were unrelated to each other. I was in error to broach the subject of neonatal male circumcision in such a glib manner when obviously it is [...] (For further discussion please read the continuation here.) No this is not a new game akin to 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon. Unlike Sarah Palin, I don’t read “all” periodicals, but I have a few favorites… the HuffPo is not one of them. Their editorials tend to come off as tirades by individuals who like to hear themselves talk… type… whatever. [...] I don’t usually write a post that solely tells you to read another blog post, but in the strange case of Desiree Jennings, Steve Novella has become something of a primary reference. I recommend his post on this case penned at Neurologica. Desiree, if you will recall, was the young woman who presented with a mysterious [...] If you haven’t subscribed to the Rationally Speaking podcast yet, what are you waiting for? The second episode dropped this week and it is all about love and what philosophy, science, and society has to say about it. Will science ever really be able to explain love? Science has already found correlations between particular hormones [...] |
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