Skeptophilia

Gervase of Canterbury was a twelfth-century English monk who lived from about 1141 to 1210.  He is best known as a historical chronicler, a...

When I was in college, the original series Cosmos , hosted by Cornell University astrophysicist Carl Sagan, aired for the first time. I was ...

Today we're fortunate to feature a guest post by my friend, fellow blogger, and twin-separated-at-birth, Andrew Butters, whose blog Pota...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Louisiana, I and several of my friends were blown away by the original series Cosmos,  writ...

I still remember when I was about twenty years old, and I first heard about Carl Sagan's proposal to terraform Venus. On first glance,...

One of the most unusual stories that H. P. Lovecraft ever wrote is "In the Walls of Eryx."  It isn't the usual soul-sucking el...

I was in my junior year of college when Carl Sagan's Cosmos  first aired.  I, and several of my friends, were absolutely riveted.  After...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , and frequent contributors of topics thereto, sent me a link with the note, "Nothing like exp...

Given my habit of poking fun at the aliens-and-UFOs crowd, it may come as a surprise to you that I think it's very likely that there...

A couple of days ago, I got an email from a reader that was long enough that I won't include the whole thing here, but the gist of it w...