Skeptophilia

In Haruki Murakami's haunting and surreal short story "Kino" (from his collection Men Without Women ), Kino is a quiet and una...

Humans are boundlessly curious, and that's a good thing.  Our drive to understand, to cure our ignorance about the world around us, is t...

So far loyal readers of Skeptophilia  have sent me four different links to the same underlying story, along with a message along the lines o...

"But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have ...

One of the hallmarks of the human condition is curiosity.  We spend a lot of our early years learning by exploring, by trial-and-error, so i...

I got in a rather interesting -- well, I suppose you could call it a "discussion" -- with a Trump supporter yesterday. It came a...

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...

If there is one feature that is nearly universal to humans, it's curiosity. I suffer from this myself.  When there's something I d...

In the last week or so, there's been a sudden rash of claims of discovering alien artifacts on the Moon and Mars. To which I respond: ...

A few days ago I made a statement that believing in the various end-of-the-world predictions was about as foolish as thinking that we're...

A few days ago, I posted about the contention that the NASA rover Curiosity had discovered life on Mars, in the form of a couple of UFOs an...

It was only a matter of time. Ever since NASA's roving Mars explorer Curiosity sent its first photographs back to Earth, I've bee...