Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer is an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and the author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God, and Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. He is is the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a monthly columnist for Scientific American.

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What Aliens Can Tell Us About Evolution

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Exercise Results In Larger Brain Size And Lowered Dementia Risk

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The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim

Astronomy, it seems, finds itself at the mercy of political caprice and economic machinations yet again. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), once poised to revolutionize observational astronomy from…

Hallstatt's Dachstein-Kalk Limestone Formation

The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more than 500 ammonite species.

AI Discovers Holes in the Sun's Corona

Artificial intelligence has been used in a variety of places, but for the first time, a neural network has been employed to detect holes in the sun's corona, with magnificent results.