Science and scepticism for everyone! (Plus t-shirts.)
Introduction: You are probably bad at probability. It’s okay. Probability is a concept that our filthy monkey brains have not had to grapple with for very long. This is because our brains evolved to err on the side of caution. … Continued
Introduction: The Arc Encounter theme park, in Kentucky, is a $100,000,000 tribute to insecurity. By this I mean that it was built as a flashy pretence to long-debunked pseudoscientific claims. No, worse than that, it is a façade of truth … Continued
Introduction: Everyone hates wildfires and the damage that they can do (Figure 1). But climate change is a decidedly slipperier and more divisive issue. It seems that some of the blame for this lies with the fact that climate change … Continued
Introduction: Ice sheets aren’t just gigantic, snowy ice masses full of sad polar bears in the north and fishy penguin poop in the south. They are highly dynamic and reactive to external factors like seasons, climate, and the presence of … Continued