On Friday evening we looked up into the sky and saw a bright twinkly dot rising in the south – the International Space Station was overhead.

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Last weekend the British Humanist Association held one of its regular conferences at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London. The topic was Evolutionary theory: is this all there is? and, as usual with these events, there was a distinguished list of academics on hand to discuss questions relating to biology, psychology and philosophy. Here’s my (inevitably subjective) summary of what went on and what we got out of attending.

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While the management is in a video-embedding mood, here’s another – The Scientific Baloney Detection Kit, which arrives with us via a long and prestigious line of scientists including Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins.

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Here’s a chance to hear the renowned philosopher AC Grayling thinking out loud on the application of scientific thinking to wider areas of life.

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Sick of being threatened with eternal damnation on your daily commute? Here’s your opportunity to strike back…

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When identifying a likely place for unidentified flying objects to appear, there are certain characteristics that seem to powerfully boost the chances of an encounter. Proximity to an airbase, a flat, rural landscape and acres of pine trees laid out in extremely straight rows all seem to provide an irresistible attraction to whatever is behind these mysterious visitors from the skies.

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This was never going to end well, was it? Half-expecting something of Alien Autopsy proportions, I was quite disappointed that it fell apart so soon.

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This, from Rebecca Traister in Salon, is just the latest in a series of articles reminding us why what it was about the wonderful Dana Scully that made us all get in touch with our sceptical side. And with the X-Files movie upcoming, we’re about to get her back, even if it’s just for a brief couple of hours.

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Here’s an anniversary this blog really couldn’t ignore – Tunguska, the unexplained event a century ago that caused a massive explosion in Siberia, turned the skies dark and broke windows hundreds of miles away.

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To celebrate today’s news that the UK’s Ministry of Defence is to release its very own X-files, we bring you a sneak preview of some of the more compelling evidence.

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