Reality is, um…. real. To assert otherwise is not only one of the principal markers of insanity, but is highly corrosive to human society. …

From a very young age, I had a love for science. I loved dinosaurs and space in particular but had a general curiosity about how the world works. …

My mother was fond of saying, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” The idiom is now antiquated and the expression has fallen into disuse, but of course, there are a number of modern equivalents. When I was young, I had a love-hate relationship with this wisdom. The…

I know just from being bullied by my peers, by my father, that when people keep coming at you, saying you’re lesser, that you’re weird, that you don’t matter, some part of you starts believing it. Some part of you starts doubting, thinking all those people may be right, maybe…

Many years ago I was sitting in my doctor’s office and we got to chatting about things other than my health. Namely, we got to talking about life. At one point she confessed that she believed in God and an afterlife because, she said, her eyes cast down, “there has…

As a scientist, I care deeply about the truth of how our world works. Like any human being, I may have my prejudices about how the world might work, but they are far less dear to me than the truth as best we can learn it through good-faith efforts and…