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Maybe it's because I'm fundamentally a home body, but I find it really hard to understand what could have driven our distant ancesto...

When you think about it, it's unsurprising that our ancestors invented "the gods" as an explanation for anything they didn...

The history of science is full of strange characters, but surely one of the most peculiar was Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe .  Born in 1546 ...

I'm sure most of you have heard of the Norse god Odin, at least from his appearance in the Marvel universe.  My first exposure to this b...

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...

Yesterday I ran into two unrelated studies that are kind of interesting in juxtaposition. The first was in the journal Heritage Science , ...

Earlier this week I looked at three cool archaeological discoveries -- cave art in Indonesia, and two finds in Egypt, one of a bone from som...

The good news from yesterday's post, wherein we learned some ways of fighting the backfire effect and convincing people to change their ...

One of my attitudes that I've found is remarkably uncommon in other humans is that I don't have the need to have an opinion about ev...

For those of you who have found yourself distressed by the heavy topics that have appeared here in Skeptophilia  over the last couple of we...

C'mon, people, it's time to grow up a little. When we're toddlers, we accept things without question.  If our parents say some...