Skeptophilia

It will come as no shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I really  hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the...

There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of a...

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...

Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased tow...

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So wrote William Shakespeare in Hamle...

Jedburgh Abbey is a ruined Augustinian monastery near the town of the same name in Roxburghshire, Scotland, only ten miles from the border ...

A couple of days ago my writer friend, Vivienne Tuffnell, posted a link to a blog called Cazadora .  Vivienne is a stunningly good writer, a...