The sacred, the inexplicable and the supernatural - the secrets of the mind, soul and God under the gaze of one of the world's most famous skeptics, historia...

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the...

Shermer got the idea to write about science for the general public after reading the articles of evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Gould, who...

These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers.

Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a...

A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologi...

Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroo...

Recent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth. Why is this? Why, despite the r...

Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American

For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael ...

With the publication of the international bestsellerThe Selfish Genesome thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of und...

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, t...

In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abducti...

What drives people's belief in an afterlife? In this book, Michael Shermer, a popularizer of science and a renowned critic of dogmatic thinking, addresses th...