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Despite doing my utmost to keep up with news from the World of the Weird, sometimes I miss one. Apparently, earlier this year, UFO enthusias...

The general rule is that you should always  try to rule out all the natural and normal explanations for something before you jump to a super...

Convergent evolution  occurs when only distantly-related species are under the same selective pressures, and evolve to look alike.  A partic...

Maybe I need to get myself a metal detector. The reason I say this is that it's apparently an auspicious time for treasure hunters, at l...

I think one of the uniting characteristics of the topics that interest me is that they all have something to do with altering our perception...

If there's one thing I've learned from nine years of writing here at Skeptophilia , it's that there is no idea so weird that som...